Intel has closed out 2011 with record sales and earnings and the expectations for 2012 are also bleak. The company sold never seen so many notebook cpus in 2011; Sandy Bridge accounted for 40 percent of sales.
Intel’s revenue increased in 2011 by 24 percent compared to 2010 to 54 billion dollars. The sales of both the PC Client Group and Data Center Group grew by 17 percent and could, in addition, Intel, the turnover of the companies acquired McAfee and Infineon Wireless in the books.
According to Intel, is an important part of the growth attributed to emerging markets and the corporate market, a trend also found in previous quarterly reports already cited. Intel says in the fourth quarter of 2011, however, suffered from the flood in Thailand, because his customers are less processors ordered, and earlier inventories eliminated. The sale of computers in the last quarter of 2011, however, has not decreased, the manufacturer.
The revenue from the Atom sales declined in 2011 by 25 percent. Especially in the last quarter were the sales back hard: revenue from the energy-saving processors made a duikeling of up to 57 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year. The attention of Intel, however, shifted to the ultrabook, and the manufacturer strives to ensure that 40 percent of the sold notebooks at the end of 2012, an ultrabook is. The current ultrabooks are typically, with Core i5’s and Core i7’s equipped and cost 900 to 1000 dollars, but according to Intel ceo Paul Otellini will be in the second half of the year, more ultrabooks with Core i3’s appear, that a minimum price of 699 dollars.
Further claims to Intel that this year a lot of tablets and smartphones with Intel chips will appear. According to Otellini stand for Windows 8 tablets “in the row to be produced to be’. Intel focuses also on Android tablets with Atoms in different price categories, while the company’s high-end smart phones also have the Medfield platform.
He confirmed that the Sandy Bridge Romley-platform for servers this quarter released in the spring followed by Ivy Bridge for the consumer market. For 2012, Intel also re-growth. The group does take into account the worsening economic situation and keeps it at a growth rate of almost 10 percent.