Intel announced the results of the first quarter, sales fell Atom processors

Company Intel otchitalas financial results for the first quarter of this year. The profit the company has fallen by 55% compared to the same period last year, revenue for the year decreased by 26% and totaled $ 7.1 billion. Gross profit Intel, in turn, fell to 45.6%, while last year it was 53%. The company explains that the high cost of content production and the cost of launching new products.

Moreover, despite the growth of the market netbukov, sales fell Atom processor. Compared with the previous quarter deliveries fell 27%. Although in April last year, the company said the pending shortage of components. Also worth noting that the market netbukov intensified competition and Intel - AMD and VIA, which provided a platform for devices of this class. Companies such as Qualcomm and Freescale also announced plans to optimize their ARM-processors for netbukov. Company Intel, however, believes that the downturn in the PC market reached its lowest point in the very near future the situation should come to the norm.