This week, Intel gathered investors and analysts to inspire them with confidence in their future together. New management has made it clear that in the area of contract manufacturing is ready to actively cooperate with competitors. Were also informed about promising models of Atom Processors, and forecasts of Intel executives expressed solidarity with the opinion of the analysts who believe that the rate of decline is slowing in PC market.
First, analysts predicted earlier for Intel revenue growth in 2014, a couple of percent, and now Intel thinks that will get as much money as in the past year. Secondly, Intel has failed to convince skeptics that its mobile processors will be able to keep up with the rapidly developing competing products, if we talk about the segment of smartphones and tablets.
Finally, even the expansion of cooperation with customers in the field of contract manufacturing of chips, some experts estimate that in two ways - in their opinion, this will reduce the rates of return. Indeed, before Intel was very proud that it produces developed processors. Added value was formed in two stages: the development and production. In the case of the release of products for competitors it will receive some funds only for services for their production. Instead, it was able to produce some own processors with integrated LTE-modem, which used to market demand, according to analysts dissatisfied. The company's stock yesterday fell by almost 5%.