Emerging countries, and notebooks make for record growth-Intel

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Intel in the third quarter, a record number of processors were sold, primarily due to the large number of notebooks sold. Further, Intel’s revenue growth mainly due to the high demand in emerging markets.

The growth of the number of delivered notebook processors came out in the ‘double digits’, according to Intel ceo Paul Otellini. The total sales of the PC Client division at Intel, where the processortak falls, amounted to 9.4 billion dollars, a growth of 22 percent compared to last year. The revenue from the Atom fell by a whopping 32 percent compared to last year to 269 million dollars.

Intel is now focusing with the Atom especially on tablets instead of netbooks. The Medfield-Atom is-according to Otellini in the first half of next year, and this chip must be the Atom again successful. On notebookgebied according to the ceo, especially ultrabooks for further growth.

The computer market in Europe and the USA performed only moderately and Intel’s growth was for a large part of the emerging markets. As demand increased in China by 12 percent, and this is now the largest consumer market on the pc-area. Demand in India rose by a whopping 21 percent, in Turkey was 14 percent and Indonesia 23 percent.

In addition to the PC Client branch did the Data Center business, as well, with a sales increase of 15 percent compared to last year. The total revenue amounted to 14.3 billion dollars. This was according to Intel has never been so high in a third quarter, and marked a growth of 29 percent compared to 2010. The profit amounted to $ 3.7 billion and this was also a record, and in addition, 24 percent more than a year back.