Intel sees revenue from data centers to increase

Intel saw revenue from its division for datacenterhardware in the last quarter, with fifteen per cent increase to 2.4 billion dollars. At the same time decreased the revenue from Atom processors with fifteen percent to 352 million dollars.

As a whole, saw Intel’s revenue in the second quarter with a 21 per cent increase to 13 billion dollars, as has chief financial officer Stacy Smith disclosed. Intel division for data centers was responsible for almost 20 percent of the revenues, with a turnover of 2.4 billion dollars. Thus, the decrease in revenue from the Atom-cpu’s have more than compensated.

Intel’s profit rose by 2 per cent to 3 billion; the profit before deduction of interest and taxes amounted to $ 3.9 billion. That is more than analysts had expected. In a call with analysts, stated the ceo of Intel, Paul Otellini, that the good results are especially achieved in the datacenterdivisie. Reports that The New York Times. The income from the datacenterdivisie would be due to an increased demand for cloudcomputingdiensten.

According to Reuters, knew Otellini further to predict that laptops are never the tablets will be replaced. That claim comes a day after Apple announced that the in the second quarter of this year, 9.2 million iPads had been sold: a growth of 183 percent compared to a year earlier. The iPad has an ARM cpu, a competitor of the Atom architecture, and therefore a danger for Intel. In september is Windows 8 presented a special tabletinterface know and also on ARM-based hardware can run.