Otellini Speaks to Nightly Business Report

Intel CEO Paul Otellini spoke to Nightly Business Report, giving his perspective on the performance increases coming down the pike vis-a-vis the reduction in revenue and consumer expenditures.

Otellini spoke of how Intel is not completely recession proof, but since 75% of its sales are now outside the United States, in the so-called emerging markets, the outlook is simply a little less good, rather than devastating, as it is for some technology suppliers.

The Intel CEO spoke of the changes occurring throughout the rest of the world, and gave specifics of the countries of India and Australia being areas of highest growth for their products.

The interview also touched upon the green aspects of Intel’s latest processors, including specifically, the Atom lineup. Mr. Otellini  sees this as the only way to push past the current ‘market cap’ of the personal computer. Interestingly, no mention of anything like OLPC was in the interview, however, desktops and laptops at half their average price now was mentioned at least twice. I find this interesting, considering the dire circumstances AMD finds itself in. Apparently Intel is not ready to count them out just yet, as it sees the further reduction of price as important as increases in performance. There certainly seems to be no other challenger to this producer of 75% of the world’s microprocessors.

No mention of the tick-tock strategy was mentioned, probably because the average NBR viewer is not interested, but it would be interesting to know if the time frames are let slip, if only a little.

For those in college now, with hopes of working for the technology giant, the interview was concluded with the admission that, three to four thousand people will be hired over the next 12 months by Intel, no matter what else happens.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. – Sir Francis Bacon

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