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iniewski
23% growth at this level of revenue? Extremely impressive!
resistion
Without the dividend, would there be less buying as a result?
Intel bounces back in 2011 chip company ranking
Peter Clarke
12/1/2011 8:20 AM EST
LONDON – Intel is set to be a nearly $50 billion company and have enjoyed 23 percent growth in 2011 as it increases its lead of the top 20 chip company ranking produced by market research firm IHS.
This takes Intel's market share of the global chip industry to 15.9 percent in 2011, up from 13.2 percent in 2010, in the preliminary market share estimate from IHS.
Intel's achievement is the more remarkable given that it has been losing market share to Samsung over several years and that IHS has 2011 as a 1.9 percent growth year achieving $312.8 billion total up from $307 billion in 2010. Only Qualcomm and On Semiconductor will show higher percentage growth in 2011, according to IHS.
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"In a challenging year for the semiconductor market, Intel achieved success on all fronts, expanding its core microprocessor and memory businesses, while also capitalizing on a major acquisition," said Dale Ford, in a statement. "This allowed the company to outgrow the market and expand its lead over its closest competitors, defying the impact of weak economic conditions and catastrophic natural disasters in Japan and Thailand."
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resistion
12/1/2011 9:37 AM EST
Even so, Apple is in much better shape than Intel. Intel has a pretty large debt.
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drward
12/1/2011 12:45 PM EST
Intel's debt to equity ratio is 0.15. Debt is being managed very well by Intel.
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mike655mm
12/1/2011 6:32 PM EST
"Intel has a pretty large debt"
"large" ? Really ? I don't think so. They actually have billions in cash on hand. What do you think their debt is ? If they have some debt, it's only because interest rates are so low right now.
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resistion
12/2/2011 12:01 AM EST
The debt is not crippling, about half their 15b cash.
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PJames
12/2/2011 8:08 PM EST
Yeah, being able to pay off the debt and have over $7bn left in the bank... that's about as "not crippling" as it gets.
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Sheetal.Pandey
12/5/2011 3:57 AM EST
I guess we cannot compare Apple and Intel..their businesses are different..but I guess if its cash in the bank then its ok...
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chipmonk
12/1/2011 2:42 PM EST
Wait till INTC breaks into Mobile with FinFET ( 30 % lower power consumption ) and novel low - cost packaging
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chipmonk
12/1/2011 2:53 PM EST
(cont'd)
The cost of packaging is now as much as 40 % of a Application Processor unit. With proprietary low cost packaging technology Intel can very well halve that cost and sell its AP at a discount so as to finally break into the Mobile market but still maintain its traditional margin for X86 CPUs.
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ibm221
12/1/2011 7:19 PM EST
Intel should have benefited most from headless AMD.
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t.alex
12/2/2011 9:20 AM EST
Yeh, it seems Intel main competitor is ARM processor, not AMD.
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Sheetal.Pandey
12/5/2011 3:54 AM EST
Agreed
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yalanand
12/2/2011 1:29 AM EST
How is Intel doing in wireless business ? How much percentage of the revenue is coming from wireless business because PC business wont outperform the market in future.
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Jaslam
12/2/2011 10:20 AM EST
lol - debt -EVERY COMPANY has debt - that is how business works.. give a business man €1m to invest, and he'll go out and borrow €4m and invest €5m instead.. how the world goes round, (y were in this mess too haha)
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resistion
12/2/2011 10:38 AM EST
Apple doesn't have debt.
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CommonSense
12/2/2011 12:20 PM EST
Apple is a consumer products company, not a chip mfgr: the comment is not relevant to this news story.
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resistion
12/2/2011 1:20 PM EST
The bottom line seems to be you have to go into debt to make chips these days, even Intel does not escape it. That could be included in the ranking next time.
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Sheetal.Pandey
12/5/2011 3:55 AM EST
how would we know..does it get published in their quarterly results..But anyway Intel definitely is doing things right.
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Paul911
12/5/2011 4:52 AM EST
Apple dont pay dividends.... and keep all profit.
Intel pay dividends.... and return the profit to shareholder... abt USD3B each year....
which one create value to shareholder?
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resistion
12/5/2011 5:39 AM EST
Without the dividend, would there be less buying as a result?
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iniewski
12/5/2011 1:48 PM EST
23% growth at this level of revenue? Extremely impressive!
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