Intel's Q1/2018 Revenue: Strong Win

[AnonymousGuy]

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The company's net income rose to $4.45 billion (£3.19 billion), or 93 cents per share, in the quarter ended March 31, from $2.96 billion, or 61 cents per share, a year earlier.

Net revenue rose to $16.07 billion from $14.80 billion.

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-results-beat-demand-data-202259604.html

Official Earnings Release: https://s21.q4cdn.com/600692695/files/doc_financials/2018/Q1/Q1-2018_EarningsRelease-FINAL.pdf

 

Pretty much a strong quarter likely due to the economy being in a bubble and EVERY company posting strong earnings.  In comparison to AMD, 81 million dollars income vs. 4.5 billion.  It's not even close.  The AMD Q1 2018 thread: 

 

Stock price is surging in afterhours trading up 10% to $57.

[TheGlenlivet]

Security Flaws???  What Security Flaws....?

[AnonymousGuy]

Just now, TheGlenlivet said:

Security Flaws???  What Security Flaws....?

Mainstream doesn't care and the datacenter customers were clearly very happy with how Intel handled it with patching and working with OEM's to deliver those patches.

[AresKrieger]

9 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Mainstream doesn't care and the datacenter customers were clearly very happy with how Intel handled it with patching and working with OEM's to deliver those patches.

Yeah I never saw much of a reason to care once it was revealed that it required additional vectors to work, can only read rather than write, and said vectors could be mostly negated with browser changes it seemed rather irrelevant, not even worth updating tbh.

[Demonking]

Well this is good for them now if they would allow for me to get the 8700k to work on my 270 strix motherboard. 

[mr moose]

1 hour ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Mainstream doesn't care and the datacenter customers were clearly very happy with how Intel handled it with patching and working with OEM's to deliver those patches.

It was only the easily lead on forums like this that thought the security flaws would effect stock prices etc.   Of course it didn't help that every tech media identity on the planet seized the opportunity to write an article that would generate more clicks than a clicker beetle in click beetle clicking competition.

[AnonymousGuy]

27 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

Yeah I never saw much of a reason to care once it was revealed that it required additional vectors to work, can only read rather than write, and said vectors could be mostly negated with browser changes it seemed rather irrelevant, not even worth updating tbh.

I don't think it was really a big deal on home PC's but in the datacenter I thought a compromised VM could use these exploits to snoop on data from neighboring VM's which would be a massive-fucking-problem.  I could be wrong though.

[AresKrieger]

7 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

I don't think it was really a big deal on home PC's but in the datacenter I thought a compromised VM could use these exploits to snoop on data from neighboring VM's which would be a massive-fucking-problem.  I could be wrong though.

On a network? Well yes if it has the permission to access the other computer, or are you talking something like a sandbox, and though it could potentially do so it matters little as it can snoop all it wants can't send the data anywhere. (I guess it could be used to circumnavigate encryption that is the reason I say "most" below)

 

There are better methods to circumnavigate most VMs so eh its an issue but its not really that threatening when compared to normal exploits in most circumstances.

[Princess Luna]

Amazing, Intel and even AMD both are behind pretty much all computers of the world and today's world is more depended of computers then ever... even with this huge responsibility and importance they profit less than the Banks, damn Banks profits are so messed up.

[asus killer]

39 minutes ago, Demonking said:

Well this is good for them now if they would allow for me to get the 8700k to work on my 270 strix motherboard. 

and you think they get all that money being suckers  You're the sucker

[AresKrieger]

8 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Banks profits are so messed up.

Well when you can hold the world's economic system hostage, have high level cronies embedded in governments around the world, and literally control the current super power's mint (the federal reserve  is a bank not a government agency) you can profit stupidly through methods that should be illegal....but aren't.

[asus killer]

all that Intel had to do was to just give us the CPU they actually could deliver and not the one that can just beat AMD by a little and they would destroy them. Nvidia is much better at it's job, by not being so greedy. 

AMD is stuck between two giants, it's amazing how they can survive

[App4that]

6 minutes ago, asus killer said:

all that Intel had to do was to just give us the CPU they actually could deliver and not the one that can just beat AMD by a little and they would destroy them. Nvidia is much better at it's job, by not being so greedy. 

AMD is stuck between two giants, it's amazing how they can survive

Intel kinda can't win in that regard. They came out with a 6c mainstream i7 finally, and people are pissed it doesn't work with boards meant for a 4c CPU. If they keep the boards supported, they're not changing enough. 

 

Also doesn't help Nvidia's public image that they're far beyond what Radeon can reach at the moment. Supporting the little guy is in. That's how AMD survives. 

[AnonymousGuy]

57 minutes ago, asus killer said:

AMD is stuck between two giants, it's amazing how they can survive

Indeed.  My operating theory is that they're being "allowed" to survive.  Intel could go to war and easily sell better products at prices that AMD couldn't beat.  Intel and NV choose instead to define themselves as "premium" brands and let AMD survive as "budget".  I bet AMD knows they can push back, but just not too hard for fear of incurring that wrath.  "If you're going to hit me you better make sure you kill me with that punch".

 

EDIT: I check for fun, Intel could afford to buy AMD twice over based on cash reserves vs. market cap.

[asus killer]

7 hours ago, App4that said:

Intel kinda can't win in that regard. They came out with a 6c mainstream i7 finally, and people are pissed it doesn't work with boards meant for a 4c CPU. If they keep the boards supported, they're not changing enough. 

 

AMD sells us what she has to sell.

 

Intel doesn't give us more cores just because she doesn't want to. They were milking the 4c/8t to make a killing selling xeons that people today are overclocking and competing with todays Intel consumer CPU's, and this are 2011 CPUs like the X5675 with 6c/12t. Intel are a shitty company, with that we agree. 

If it weren't for the ryzen, we would be rocking the 4c/8t 8700k 

 

 

6 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Indeed.  My operating theory is that they're being "allowed" to survive.  Intel could go to war and easily sell better products at prices that AMD couldn't beat.  Intel and NV choose instead to define themselves as "premium" brands and let AMD survive as "budget".  I bet AMD knows they can push back, but just not too hard for fear of incurring that wrath.  "If you're going to hit me you better make sure you kill me with that punch".

 

EDIT: I check for fun, Intel could afford to buy AMD twice over based on cash reserves vs. market cap.

my theory is that they let AMD exist so they don't have problems with governments for being in a single company market, making them having a actual monopoly (this way they have a virtual one). That would bring them all sorts of problems.

[mr moose]

10 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Indeed.  My operating theory is that they're being "allowed" to survive.  Intel could go to war and easily sell better products at prices that AMD couldn't beat.  Intel and NV choose instead to define themselves as "premium" brands and let AMD survive as "budget".  I bet AMD knows they can push back, but just not too hard for fear of incurring that wrath.  "If you're going to hit me you better make sure you kill me with that punch".

 

EDIT: I check for fun, Intel could afford to buy AMD twice over based on cash reserves vs. market cap.

Apple could buy AMD twice in one year with the revenue from macs alone.

 

 

 

[Nicnac]

economy ina bubble?

[App4that]

9 hours ago, asus killer said:

AMD sells us what she has to sell.

 

Intel doesn't give us more cores just because she doesn't want to. They were milking the 4c/8t to make a killing selling xeons that people today are overclocking and competing with todays Intel consumer CPU's, and this are 2011 CPUs like the X5675 with 6c/12t. Intel are a shitty company, with that we agree. 

If it weren't for the ryzen, we would be rocking the 4c/8t 8700k 

AMD would like you to think that, but wrong lol. Intel was already planning Coffee Lake way before Ryzen, all Ryzen did was move up the launch a few months. 

 

If AMD want's to sell me what I want, they'd sell the fastest CPU avalible