Intel Reports Record $11.1 Billion Revenue

[razor512]

[citation][nom]scook9[/nom]All that money and they cannot make a decent IGP[/citation]

They could but the power of procrastination is a strong force to overcome. Also it is hard to make a good GPU when your bust counting all that money.

 

[ta152h]

[citation][nom]JasonAkkerman[/nom]What are you smoking? That's what Apple said 25 years ago and we see how well that worked out for them. x86/x64... resistance is futile.[/citation]

25 years Apple was using the 68K line, a CISC processor family, and the 6502, which was also a CISC processor. The first RISC based machine, the RT PC wasn't quite out yet.

So, sorry, you're wrong. x86 processors aren'tt true CISC anymore, anyway. It's a kludge that changes x86 instructions into RISC instructions that are then executed.

There's absolutely no way Intel would choose this now for a new instruction set. The front-end of the decoupled architecture is a necessity for compatibility. So, RISC did win. So much so, even instruction sets not designed for it, found a way to use it for their processors.

CISC was a good idea when memory was very expensive and small. But, when memory capacities grew, the advantages of RISC outweighed the benefits of greater code density, by a lot.

VLIW, on the other hand ...

 

[retirepresident]

That's hard to believe when Dell layoff 25,000 in the states and 25,000 around the world in the 1st quarter of 2010. I guess its called lying to the share and the world.

 

[retirepresident]

That's hard to believe when Dell layoff 25,000 in the states and 25,000 around the world in the 1st quarter of 2010. I guess its called lying to the shareholders and the world.

 

[dEAne]

wow that's my money.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]dEAne[/nom]wow that's my money.[/citation]
All of it? You must be loaded.
Your round at the bar.

 

[eddieroolz]

I will never forget that Intel did nothing but filthy backroom deals to become a giant company that is able to generate $3billion in revenue. I just do not trust Intel, period.

 

[whysobluepandabear]

[citation][nom]Dirtman73[/nom]I'm proud to say I had no active part in Intel's profit margin for that quarter. Or any quarter for that matter.[/citation]

You're giving business to a company (AMD) that refuses to compete on the same level as Intel currently is. Yes, in the AMD 64 days, AMD was whooping Intels ass. Currently, even if AMD is cheaper, they just cannot match Intel.


Until AMD does something spectacular, I don't see the point in rewarding their failing business models.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]I will never forget that Intel did nothing but filthy backroom deals to become a giant company that is able to generate $3billion in revenue. I just do not trust Intel, period.[/citation]
That statement would carry a lot more weight if their underhanded and shady practices were for the purpose of rolling out a sub-par product.

As it is they produced and still do produce the fastest and most powerful chips on the market, if the market were to exist solely on ability then Intel would still be on top.

As it is, the shady practices deserve sanction and they paid their fine. I am not happy that my Core i7 cost as much as it did, but I am very happy with it's performance.

 

[roleki]

[citation][nom]TA152H[/nom]It's good to see Intel making a lot of money, especially since they are, overall, doing so much good for the computer industry. It's also good that they don't price so low that they knock AMD out of business, which they could do if they wanted to sacrifice some profits.The computer industry is healthy. AMD has finally given up competing with Intel on single threaded performance and made the Bulldozer focus on many threaded performance, whereas Intel had the money to create a brand new (non Pentium-Pro) processor with many of the advanced technologies of the Pentium 4, but done better. Intel might not always be perfect, but they do more for the computer industry than any other company, and overall have excellent products that the world benefits from greatly. Anyone upset by their outstanding products should remember the benefit the company has on the world. That's the way capitalism is supposed to be.[/citation]

What this person said. I've always found it a bit curious when supposedly 'tech people' rail against Intel or Microsoft... my guess is, they're either too young to remember the headaches of trying to get anything done when there were literally dozens of vendor-specific implementations of the 'personal computer' OR, they ARE old enough to remember, and are just bitter that the Amiga or TRS-80 didn't win out, or that their stack of Antic magazines are worthless.

 

[tidex]

[citation][nom]jskilnyk[/nom]What are the odds of them buying nVidia? I mean it would be classic Intel Vs. AMD again.[/citation]

maybe then nvidia wouldn't suck so much.

 

[hardcore_gamer]

[citation][nom]JasonAkkerman[/nom]What are you smoking? That's what Apple said 25 years ago and we see how well that worked out for them. x86/x64... resistance is futile.[/citation]

CMOS scaling will ultimately hit a roadblock in the future..then RISC will make a comeback