Intel company report about the financial results of activity for the first quarter present year contained much positive information.
For Intel the passed block proved to be a record from the side of profit increase. Thus, operating profit in comparison with the previous block grew by 38% to $3,4 billion, clean profit increased by 7% to $2,4 billion gain volume composed $10,3 billion - this although 30% less than the gain of the previous block, for the beginning of the year this is a very good result. Usually in the first quarter a drop in the gain volumes reaches 9-10%. The price for the realization of processor slightly grew, predominantly due to the appearance on the market for more expensive model atom new generation.
The processors atom and chipset for them formed in the first quarter gain in size of $355 ml this 19% less than the analogous index of the previous block, but Intel representatives explain this by the exhaustion of warehouse reserves after a swift increase in the demand in the fourth quarter. In the opinion of company chapters, netbook finally affirmed themselves as a product for home use, since in the corporate segment the demand for this mobile computer type was not formed. In the portion of netbook in the total volume of sold in the world notebook now there are about 20%. In this case Intel management is convinced that the market for netbook is still distant from saturation state.

Intel promised to present the dual core version atom for netbook. Products on base of this processor will appear to the end of year.