万花筒 2011-04-22&04-24 新兴市场个人电脑需求给力 英特尔业绩大涨

 In a big surprise, chip giant Intel announced 25% jump in quarterly revenues, the much better than expected sales figures helped lift profits far ahead of analysts¹' forecast. Softness in consumer demand for PCs and laptops in North America and Europe were more than offset² by strength in its enterprise business, IE servers and continued growth in emerging markets. Intel Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith. 

 

"I think we were just at the early stage of the kind of demand drivers coming out of emerging markets. Say and it’s simple economic cognate³. The affordability⁴ of technology has come down to the point that you now have a couple of billion consumers that weren’t part of worldwide market a few years ago and today they are."

 

Intel also was surprised because the chip company didn’t seem to be impacted by supply shortages caused by the disasters in Japan, unlike fellow chipmaker Texas Instruments. Smith says that’s because PC manufacturing is different than other devices. 

 

"The core difference is the PC market is a horizontal market and that means you have multiple suppliers with multiple occasions. It's a very mature supply chain. So their resilience and ability to respond something like this, is pretty high, if you can trust that to say a smartphone or you might have a custom-built materials where one unique product that’s made in an impact area can bring entire product line to its needs."

 

Meanwhile, Intel’s revenue forecast for the current quarter are also much higher than analysts suggesting talk of the death of PC at the hands of growing popularity of the Apple iPad are overblown. 

1 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。

2 offset   

n.分支，补偿；v.抵消，补偿

参考例句：

• Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices.他们增加的工资会被物价上涨所抵消。
• He put up his prices to offset the increased cost of materials.他提高了售价以补偿材料成本的增加。

3 cognate   

adj.同类的，同源的，同族的；n.同家族的人，同源词

参考例句：

• Mathematics and astronomy are cognate sciences.数学和天文学是互相关联的科学。
• English,Dutch and German are cognate languages. 英语、荷兰语、德语是同语族的语言。

4 affordability   

可购性

参考例句：

• Performance-Based Logistics Affordability: Can We Afford Categorical Conversion to Performance-Based Acquisition? 基于性能的后期的可承受性：能否担负得起向基于性能的采办的无条件的转变？
• There would be no crisis of affordability, as't for food or clothing. 就想食物与服装一样，因为供给没有危机。