News - Intel records strong Q2 earnings, beats PC market estimates

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It saw a 40% uplift in profits, confirmed next-gen Broadwell chips on track for Xmas.

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600M units up for replacement? I know it is a basically stagnant market, but wow that is one hell of a size of stagnant market. If you assume those are going to be replaced with really cheap PCs with cpu + chipset silicon coming to £50 that is still a £30B market. In reality I presume lots of those devices will be laptops on big profit margins.