Intel continue to feel pain, quarterly profits drop 25% for Q1 2013

Intel's Q1 profits drop 25%, PC industry being in a state of despair isn't helping.

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We know the PC industry is in a state of pain, but it looks like the largest chipmaker is hurting, too. Intel have just posted their latest earnings report, revealing that their quarterly profits for Q1 2013 are down 25% year-over-year.

Intel continue to feel pain, quarterly profits drop 25% for Q1 2013 | TweakTown.com

For Q1 2013, Intel made $2.045 billion in profits, down from $2.738 billion last year. Intel CEO, Paul Otellini, said in a statement:

Amidst market softness, Intel performed well in the first quarter and I'm excited about what lies ahead for the company. We shipped our next-generation PC microprocessors, introduced a new family of products for micro-servers, and will ship our new tablet and smartphone microprocessors this quarter.

It gets dirtier than that, with a Bernstein Research analyst, Stacy Rasgon, writing in a recent investors' note:

Intel is in a battle of survival-not only do they need to penetrate massively into the computing spaces currently dominated by the ARM camp, but they also need to keep the ARM camp from burrowing their way upward into the PC space. This will only get harder (and more confusing) as the lines between PCs and tablets further blur.

I believe we're going to see some big changes in the coming years, as people are getting to the point where a basic Core i3 processor and decent SSD are enough to give you a powerhouse. It's only if you need a huge workstation or high-end gaming rig that you go after the high-end Core i7 processors. Where are we going to be a few years from now? We can't expect 24-core processors at 10GHz, so we need to see change from Intel - which is what Haswell is set to provide us.

NEWS SOURCE:arstechnica.com

Anthony joined the TweakTown team in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of graphics cards. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering and has recently taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.

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