problems with the supply of hard drives. due to flooding in Thailand, which, recall, caused the destruction of the world's leading manufacturing plants - Seagate and WD.
Previously, the company predicted revenue this quarter of about $ 14.7 billion, the corresponding figure is now adjusted to $ 13.7 billion.
In the message Intel stated that the world's suppliers of equipment and reduce stocks of purchases of microprocessors as a result of insufficient supply of hard drives for a complete set of computers and laptops. Intel expects that the problems with the supply of hard drives will remain in the 1st quarter 2012.
As a result of such negative news the company's shares in early trading on Monday, fell by 4%.
Speaking about the possible impact of deficit drives the popularity of. SSD-drives. , Intel representatives said that while significant changes in the demand is not observed, but this is only a matter of time. The situation will affect the increase in production ultrabukov, which in most cases just using solid-state drives.
In addition, perhaps the situation will affect the traditional rivalry, Intel and AMD. Earlier last. announced a change of strategy. The old is now losing even indirect reasons. AMD plans to abandon the technological race with Intel, the company significantly ahead of market positions (80 % vs. 20% of processors), and concentrate on the mobile direction in which Intel has failed to provide any competitive solutions.
Most analysts believe that the focus of attention will focus on product development era of ... Details of the company promised to present in February 2012.
Source: overclockers. ru, vedomosti. ru, nstor. ru.
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