Intel Company announced the receipt of revenue in the amount of $ 12.9 billion, operating income for the first quarter this year amounted to $ 3.8 billion, net income - $ 2.7 billion, income per share - $ 0.53.
The rate of return fell from 64.5% to 64%. This is partly due to the cost of increasing production volume of 22 nm processors. In the future the cost will pay off. In the second quarter, the company expects to gain $ 13.6 billion, the profit rate should be between 62% to 63%. The head of Intel hopes that in the whole 2012 will be for the company as stable and successful as the first quarter.
Now to the fun part. In the second quarter, the company promises to begin volume shipments of 22 nm processors and continue to increase the production volume of best server product in history, and with the support of partners will offer the first smartphone based on Atom processor .
Bulk deliveries of Ivy Bridge processors already begun - this can be judged by a set of images of boxed copies Core i7-3770K and Core i5-3570K. In the second quarter these processors will take up to 25% of deliveries, and their share will be over 50%.
Intel reported the cause of delay in the announcement of Ivy Bridge processors by three weeks from its initial date. Intel wanted to provide customers with a sufficient stock of these processors. The first models Ivy Bridge, which will go on sale this month, will be quad, and most of them will be used in desktop systems. . Second wave Ivy Bridge models will consist of dual-core processors. If Intel plans do no changes, then the dual-core processors Ivy Bridge will appear in June.