Intel Posts Revenue, Goes For AMD's Neck on Server Market
Written by IT News on 2:47 PMBy: Bogdan Botezatu, Hardware Editor
Intel posted his only income for the first quarter ended 31 March. Intel was able to achieve higher-than-expected earnings, but lower profits to be taken as a sign
that the company is beginning to spend a little more.
Compared to AMD, Intel is still performing well, and she even managed to steal much of the market share in the market MP server between Q4 2007 and Q1 2008. Intel's expansion in the server market is extremely bad news for its arch-rival AMD, given the fact that most of its revenue comes from the same sector.
Intel Corporation Executive Director Paul Otellini refused to give any assessment of the company, the market share of the proceeds, and said that he would wait until the results kick in. analysts Otellini only claimed that he was a "very strong quarter for server chips" mainly due to the ramping production at Caneland server platform, powered Corporation Intel Xeon processor 7300 Tigerton.
According to the report earnings, Intel managed to squeeze 4.8 billion U.S. USA in processor and the chipset sales, a 15 per cent increase over the first quarter of 2007. Intel also said that most of the revenue attributable to the fact that 45 - nanometer technology allows the company to reduce the average cost.
Mercury Research analyst Dean McCarron alleges that Intel enjoys a greater market share in the server CPU business than usual, largely because AMD was unable to deliver its B2 changes in Barcelona Opteron family time. "The server market is very sensitive to the issues of stability," said McCarron.
At the same time, Intel is promoting its quad-core processors in a very aggressive way, in particular its quad-Xeon main parts, which were bestsellers in the quarter. Moreover, the vast majority of the Xeon line of the activities currently is constructed with the use of 45 - nanometer manufacturing node, which gives them the advantage of the effectiveness of AMD chips in
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