Intel Reports Best Quarter Ever in 42-year History
The market is loving Intel.
Investors should be glad to hear that Intel's doing well in business these days.
Intel Corporation today reported second-quarter revenue of $10.8 billion, up 34 percent year-over-year. The company reported operating income of $4.0 billion, net income of $2.9 billion and EPS of 51 cents.
"Strong demand from corporate customers for our most advanced microprocessors helped Intel achieve the best quarter in the company's 42-year history," said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO. "Our process technology lead plus compelling architectural designs increasingly differentiate Intel-based products in the marketplace. The PC and server segments are healthy and the demand for leading-edge technology will continue to increase for the foreseeable future."
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Plus the fact that Intel's marketing is still better than AMD. A lot of people know or hear of Centrino, Core or Pentium, but not much of Vision, Phenom or Turion.
I'd love more laptops with a 25watt x2 and 5670m.
Or even any highend low-TDP AMD chips for laptops...
Honestly, I believe AMD could dramatically step up their sales if they put out a decent laptop chip already. D:
Yep, you nailed it there. Pretty much anyone could hum the Intel jingle for you.
I'd love more laptops with a 25watt x2 and 5670m.
Or even any highend low-TDP AMD chips for laptops...
Honestly, I believe AMD could dramatically step up their sales if they put out a decent laptop chip already. D:
AMD already has some excellent mobile offerings, and more coming shortly(X920 BE anyone?). It's the poor adoption by manufacturers that is hurting AMD at the moment. More people need to step up and see AMD's potential. But I guess a lot of us are waiting for bulldozer and fusion. =/
Plus the fact that Intel's marketing is still better than AMD. A lot of people know or hear of Centrino, Core or Pentium, but not much of Vision, Phenom or Turion.
Yep, you nailed it there. Pretty much anyone could hum the Intel jingle for you.
I feel ya. I still have a Q6600 with B3 stepping that I can't overclock, and it's starting to get long in the tooth. I want to upgrade, but they still want almost $300 for some of their higher-end 775 processors.
Either that or they're getting a lot of repeat sales from people getting the 3 different board/cpu combos mixed up and buying multiple parts
AMD reports tomorrow so we'll see how well they fared in competition. AMD does have Magny Cours to compete in server, after all.
I had a Q6600 with I think the "GO" Stepping and I got 3.2Ghz out of it, then I got the Q9450 and got that to 3.4Ghz, I think I paid like $350 right when it came out. It's worth it, they are really fast.
intel markets good btu its still mosrtly residuals from thier anticompetitive behavior.
that said depending on my funds i'll either get a amd of intel depending on who holds the crown in my price segment. in my friends case for a sub 500 rig amd won the battle, but i'm no fanboy i'll reseach and get the best at the time in my pricepoint
Advertising is overrated. We mostly become immune to most advertising techniques and most companies are still clinging to this idea to gain new customers when the best approach has always just been to make sure your current customers are taken care of and happy so they will do the advertising for you.
With that being said advertising is still a great way to announce a new product or to announce significant changes to an established product customers would like to know about.
But I think the real reason has to do with many of the shady practices Intel orchestrated to gain favor with the many PC manufacturers. How quick we forget that Intel had to pay off AMD with a rather large sum of money just recently. Hmmm What was that for? Unethical buiness practices maybe???
BTW Ive been running AMD processors on 2 of my main PC's lately where at one time everything was Intel. One laptop and one desktop and Im not missing a damn thing.