ASML and Intel have suffered from falling demand for pcs

ASML and Intel have quarterly figures published, showing that the companies suffer from a declining demand for pcs. The profit of Intel fell by 25 percent compared to the same quarter last year. ASML expects 2013 to be no increase in revenue.

Intel made in the first quarter of 2013, more than 2 billion dollar profit, a decrease of 25 percent compared to the first quarter of 2012, when the company’s more than 2.7 billion dollar profit-making. The revenue from pc chips fell by 6 percent compared to 2012, while the revenue from serverchips increased by 7.5 percent. The drop in profits has to do with a drop in sales of Intel’s chips. In January, it appeared that Intel’s turnover and profit for the whole of 2012 decreased compared to 2011.

The second quarter of 2013 will see Intel, nevertheless, rosy, the company reported during the presentation of the results of the first quarter. The new Haswell processor and new formfactors such as ultrabooks, convertibles and tablets need for growth. Also Clover Trail+ and Bay Trail need Intel on smartphones and tablets more popular to create. Intel is currently barely represented in that segment. The new formfactors, which are increasingly provided will be of a touch screen, also need to get a faster Windows 8 adoption is concerned. Paul Ottelini, the outgoing ceo of Intel, is Windows 8 better than Windows 7, but it believes that the adoption curve is steeper than that of Windows 7 or XP. The disappointing popularity of Windows 8 is seen as one of the causes of the absence of a growth in the sales of pcs.

ASML, the Dutch manufacturer of semiconductor equipment, came up with quarterly results that are better than expected abandoned. Nevertheless believe the company in 2013 no increase in sales to books, reports Reuters. ASML is seen as the barometer in the tech sector, because halfgeleiderfabrikanten faster, invest in new equipment if it goes well in the sector. The flattening revenue, according to cfo Peter Wennink is caused by the cannibalisation of pcs by tablets. Wennink follows, incidentally, is the current ceo of ASML, Eric Meurice, on. The contract of Meurice expires next year.

Earlier in april proved that the pc market in a record time shrinks; pc sales would be worldwide, with 14 percent compared to 2012. Intel has already taken measures to compensate for the decline in pc sales. So the manufacturer has the production of desktop motherboards reduced, and there is started the production of chips for third parties, such as the Altera, and may soon be Cisco.