Intel makes $2.3 billion on $10.7 billion turnover
The ASPs are snakes in the grass
Tuesday, 15 January 2008, 21:54
CHIPZILLA said it made $10.7 billion in its fourth quarter, yielding a net profit of $2.3 billion.
But it had expected to make more. The firm said the turnover was $88 million below the amount it had expected because the ASPs (average selling prices) were lower than average.
NAND memory hurt the ASPs, but the gross margin was 58.1 per cent, which is not bad from any point of view.
Intel said charges of $234 million were double its forecast “due to an impairment of NOR flash assets related to the proposed Numonyx transaction”.
Chipsets did well, flash was flat, and while CPUs set a record, ASPs were flat. The market doesn’t like Intel’s results, but a net profit of $2.3 billion doesn’t seem shoddy from here. µ
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you know as well i as i do what this means for us all... back to the dark ages where chipset technology progresses at a rate akin to a snail taking a big fat constipated hardened dump on a garden gnome

Sayonara AMD it was nice while it lasted.
Not to mention Im shopping for the cheap IBM G5-s cause person with knowledge says cheapass PC mobo-s with DC DC converters are disaster, and Vista Sp1 fixes nothin
Amd/ Ati products were too ambitious. All should have been released on 55nm, and progressed to 45nm, not released on 65nm. (r600>rv670, and phenom). They will hold out until r700 hits with x2 basically (both graphically and cpu wise) and as 55nm kicks in intel will have a run for their money, as 45nm isn't cutting it with tdp too well, even though it can clock for england!
I for one will welcome a bit of slowing. Having a far less useful videocard(8800gts-640) 6 months later is not exactly pleasing. A slowdown would be nice. CPU's and motherboards could also use a slowdown too. As a consumer, I see this as a good thing.