Intel's second-quarter earnings surge on PC sales

[Dietrichw]

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Intel said its second-quarter profit surged 40 percent, as the chipmaker's PC business posted strong revenue gains, making up for a more than $1 billion operating loss in its mobile unit.

 

Intel said Tuesday that its PC client unit posted a 41 percent rise in operating profit to $3.73 billion, on a 6 percent increase in revenue from the year ago. The data-center business reported a 40 percent rise in profit, on 19 percent revenue growth.

 

Revenue grew 8 percent to $13.83 billion. The company last month raised its revenue expectations for the period to $13.7 billion, plus or minus $300 million, citing stronger than expected demand for business PCs.

[TheSLSAMG]

"PCs are dying." - most people

 

My fucking ass they are.

[BonBon Scott]

PCs are still going strong.

[Kyuubixchidori]

see the thing is, buying computers and upgrading is a luxury. so like everything else, it tanked with the economy. now that its getting better, people can afford to upgrade more. because It seems like people will upgrade their phones every 2 years no matter what. 

 

but with pcs, my dads I7 920 from 6 years ago(?) is still going strong. he doesn't have a reason to upgrade. and defiently wouldn't of when money was tight. so a combo of poor economy, and performance not sky rocking anymore is where the "pcs dieing" came from. 

[LukaP]

#PCeverythingMasterrace

[Katsu-K1L]

#JustMasterRaceThings

[Askew]

600 million machines over the age of 4 years that they hope to turn into CPU sales soon? That's a lot of business if those machines are indeed upgraded in the near future and Intel CPUs are selected.

 

Excellent news though I always like to see positive reports from PC hardware companies, long live my favourite industry!

[Askew]

Intel Skylake

 

If true the quad core base is a big step forward IMO, duals have been around for a very long time and are still very viable for a number of applications but at the baseline pricepoint? I'd pick 4 Intel cores over 4 AMD FX modules every time.

 

I'm very interested to see how AMD move along with their next wave of consumer CPUs, I wonder if they will even bring another enthusiast CPUs to market?  As you say Intel graphics is pushing strongly and has a monumental installed userbase as it is, I wonder how AMD's APU product line will behave if we see quad core i3s with even stronger iGPUs.

[The_Strict_Nein]

It seems to co-inside with Microsoft dropping support for Windows XP.

Not surprising, really

[SSL]

But PC is dying. Right guise?

[Guest Kloaked]

But PC is dying. Right guise?

PC sails r down. Take tht pcmusterdrace!!

[SSL]

PC sails r down. Take tht pcmusterdrace!!

 

musterd the Rohirrim.