At the quarterly reporting the conference, Intel has noted that the increase in the average selling price of processors allowed to compensate for reduction in the number of sold processors - at least, showed last year revenue growth of 2%.
Intel CEO Brian Krzhanich (Brian Krzanich) mentioned in the quarterly reporting the event that the results of 2016 it sold a record number of processors Core i7 series, which are the most expensive brands of products for use in desktop systems. For PCs falling market it is quite a good result, as recognized by Intel head . Generally, the Core family in the past year reached its highest share among all brands of products.
More addition, Intel has sold significantly more 10 core versions of processors Broadwell-E, than originally planned. This year, Intel does not expect a decrease in average selling prices for its processors, although the level of sales in the PC segment will grow by a few per cent, in real terms, sales volumes will decrease by the same few percent.