How much revenue did Intel make in 2011?...a LOT

[jhu]

[url="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=WMT+Income+Statement&annual]Wal*Mart[/url], at $421 billion in revenue, laughs at your pathetic $54 billion.

 

[gramboh]

[url="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=WMT+Income+Statement&annual]Wal*Mart[/url], at $421 billion in revenue, laughs at your pathetic $54 billion.

Yeah, and look at retail margins versus Intel's margins. I would take a wide margin business like Intel any day over pure volume with razor thin profitability (aka business becomes all about cost control, little room to innovate).

 

[jhu]

Yeah, and look at retail margins versus Intel's margins. I would take a wide margin business like Intel any day over pure volume with razor thin profitability (aka business becomes all about cost control, little room to innovate).

Cost control is innovation. No one does logistics better than them.

 

[grkM3]

do you think that everthing inside a walmart was given to them for free lol.

 

[gramboh]

Cost control is innovation. No one does logistics better than them.

I agree, they were/innovative in that field and have done extremely well, however is there room for future innovation beyond global expansion for them? Non-retail business? Maybe. If I were investing money, INTC has superior growth prospects and upside on the stock price in the next 5-10 years hands down.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Intel with the sharefloat isn't really a good buy at this time But as intel buys back shares this is were Intels float share price will increase. get outstanding float down to under 3 billion shares intels a great buy. I hung on to my apple stock waiting for a split gave up and sold

 

[gorydetails]

walmart growth may be limit unless there are martians and a store opens in mars,,

 

[N4g4rok]

It depends on your needs and budget.

I still think it comes down to this.

The last few builds i've put together have still been AMD just because the price/performance ratio is exactly where i like it (For the 45nm line, anyway). I picked up a Phenom II 970 BE back in april for $110, and does what it needs to. As far as gaming goes, only Crysis 2 has ever gotten choppy frames rates on me, and that's just paired with 2 5830's.

I still don't think the 2500k is a worthwhile upgrade at it's current price. I've never liked the idea of paying more than ~120 for a processor, and i still don't.

Now, unless AMD really get it together and release something worthwhile with Piledriver, I'll wait for the SNB 2500k to drop in price after Ivy's release. but only because by then, the Phenom II might be destitute.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Medfield is a SoC full of old products we are all tired of. It represents nothing new for Atom, it's just a single core version getting shoe horned into a sub-netbook form factor.

If revenue is really down 50%, they should realize we want better Atom performance, not more products with the same performance.

I take it you didn't read AT article On Medfield The single core unit with HT goes into phones the 2 core unit with even better graphics is likely tablets only . Unless Intel has some pixie dust Up its sleeve. I don't and have never owned a cell phone . Wife does I don't But I will buy Medfield Phone and Tablet .. For me . The oldest grandchild the 4 year old Has advanced from Tablet to Ultra. In the last 60 days he has come so far so the tablet is out for him. He needs a real computer laptop

 

[Nemesis 1]

AMD is not going to go under. Fusion's doing well. Just because BD is not an ideal consumer CPU doesn't mean AMD's "doomed".

SNB's IGP is used all over the place (majority of graphics in laptops!) and it sucks massively. Yet Intel's not going under.

Fusion is actually mind bogglingly good. I have never used an IGP before and though, "wow, this is actually pretty awesome". And I'm as die-hard an Intel fan as they come.

YOUR name implies that. But so many of your post say differant . Like your comments now about Fusion Its OK its not a good gamer but it will do . Just as IVB will be I await your comments On IVB when you see the results. I have know idea without drivers intel is holding back.

 

[Arachnotronic]

I mean, I care mostly about Intel's CPU performance since I'd never use the IGP if I were building a high end PC. So that's kind of why I'm getting annoyed with them -- they're stagnating horribly on the CPU side and have messed up product segmentation...

 

[meloz]

All that cash, and their linux GPU drivers still suck. Cheaspasses cannot hire more or better quality developers, Intel's current linux devs work at a glacial pace.

It's only the about-to-be-released Mesa 8 that will give decent performance -comparable to what is available with same hardware (HD 2000, HD 3000) on Windows-, took Intel almost a year after releasing Sandy Bridge to get the drivers working properly.

Let us not even mention SNA.....

 

[PreferLinux]

All that cash, and their linux GPU drivers still suck. Cheaspasses cannot hire more or better quality developers, Intel's current linux devs work at a glacial pace.

It's only the about-to-be-released Mesa 8 that will give decent performance -comparable to what is available with same hardware (HD 2000, HD 3000) on Windows-, took Intel almost a year after releasing Sandy Bridge to get the drivers working properly.

Let us not even mention SNA.....

Can't say they are bad when you're talking about what some distro provides. It is what they provide that matters in such cases, which is source – and is pretty good as you said yourself.