Yesterday's quarterly report from Intel and today's report from AMD revealed that the PC market is still slowing down. There is hope for some stabilization in the third and fourth quarter, but so far there is no stability. In any case, with respect to the performance of the same quarter last year, the two companies demonstrated negative dynamics. IBM has jumped from the needles of client systems and manufacture of components for PC, and it manufactured hard drives, monitors, and printers.
So far, the transition to a service model saved IBM.
According to an official document IBM company's revenue and profit for the year decreased - everything is exactly the same as everyone else's. So, in the second quarter 2013, IBM has raised $ 24.9 billion and a net profit of $ 3.2 billion in the year, these indicators have worsened, respectively, by 3% and 17%.
The most profitable technology services for the year decreased by 5% to $ 9.5 billion, business services offered at less than 1% - $ 4.6 billion in software, by contrast, increased revenues by 4% - to $ 6.4 billion Direction hardware ( Server) platforms has reduced its revenue by 12% - to $ 3.8 billion, the company hopes that the third quarter will improve financial performance.