In order to adapt to transition into the era of smart + connected from the PC era, the layoffs at up to 12000 people, accounted for 11% of the number of employees
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[Intel tablet business shipments plummeted 44%. Wall Street analysts will fall to a PC chip business in a constant state of the weak, the business was once Intel's core product lines.]
[Intel's first fiscal revenue was $13.7 billion, up 7% year on year; net profit was $2.046 billion, up 3% from a year earlier.]
"At the moment we do not provide specific information about the country or region, but we are still in the evaluation of European plan." Aiming at Intel has announced job cuts, Intel China on April 20, response to "first financial daily" said.
Affected by the sluggish PC sales, Intel announced job cuts, predicts before mid - 2017, through the office integration, voluntary and involuntary terminations, project review, and other forms, the world will cut 12000 jobs, most involving population accounts for about 11% of the total number of staff, mainly from the global operations department.
A day earlier, Intel announced on April 2, as of the first quarter of fiscal 2016 earnings. Results showed that Intel's first fiscal revenue was $13.7 billion, up 7%; Net income was $2.046 billion, up 3% from a year earlier.
"At present, Intel is in a delicate period, the company expects from wearable by computing power through the terminal product line to the data center." Intel insiders told reporters, from PC to mobile intelligent interconnection, this is the age of three different, Intel need to make an adjustment to adapt to The Times.
Intel's chief executive, Brian family again, (BrianKrzanich) said: "we will be from a PC company to support cloud transformation with the billions of dollars of intelligence, networking equipment company."
The PC was abandoned?
Mobile and PC business "unexpected" missed the Intel IDF information technology summit recently held in shenzhen. This is seen as the year Intel is very important, to show the product line's technology summit, more time and space for the Internet of things, a guest, and technology is introduced in aspects of data center operations and planning.
Compared to a lot of people think that two years ago in "big" in the field of mobile and the prospect of a new opportunity to the PC business, Intel's now seems to be more on the outlook for technology trends, the lack of the ambitions of industry to occupy.
Kirk skaugen's departure is considered with Intel PC business decline, and the strategic adjustment of the future.
Results showed that Intel tablet business shipments plummeted 44%. One of Wall Street analysts will fall to a PC chip business in a constant state of the weak, the business was once Intel's core product lines.
"But for Intel, the PC business is extremely important." Intel China is responsible for the PC business products a insiders told reporters that Intel attempts are made over the past two years, but the environment, the PC overall decline is more serious.
Market research firm Gartner, according to a report in the first quarter of the global PC shipments fell 9.6%, this is the sixth consecutive quarter of decline. Gartner RogerSheng analysis director for the "first financial daily" said, the current consumer PC market has been in recession, and the data center, especially the emerging, with a certain depth study of artificial intelligence of cloud services, will be the development trend in the future.
Intel vice President and Intel China general manager, sales and marketing Xia Lebei said in an interview with the China business news, now is the time to redefine the personal computer, the push for Intel is also combined the popularity of notebook, as well as new partners such as huawei's cooperation.
"The PC is still important, but Intel needs to speed up the layout of new area." The insiders told reporters.
Where is the new opportunities?
For PC and server processor from the traditional, to support the guest, Internet of things now, robots, VR, unmanned aircraft, unmanned, from two years ago admitted missed opportunities and large to move into this year on the Internet of things in the field of "cast the net wider," Intel is a bit different.
But the company want to become what kind of company?
In again, after taking office, Intel has made a series of major changes to the product roadmap. On the one hand, Intel and physical networking department set up a new equipment, and can be upgraded to a career in the subsequent group, improve the status of within the company; Use veteran, on the other hand, help company adapt to changes in organizational structure, such as hired worked as executive vice President at its rivals qualcomm's card, Aaron Du Qin tara (VenkataRenduchintala).
But analysts pointed out that although the Internet of things, wearable layout in advance, but the industry's business model has not yet been determined, and consumer demand has yet to be. As a result, Intel still has a "trial and error" in the new business venture.
From the first quarter of the data, data center sector revenue of $4 billion, fell by 7%, year-on-year growth of 9%; Iot group on revenue of $651 million, rose 4%, year-on-year growth of 22%; The variable storage solutions group on revenue of $557 million, fell by 15%, fell 6%. Security group on revenue of $537 million, rose 5%, up 12% from a year earlier. Programmatic solutions group on revenue of $359 million.
Although the PC business profits beyond the PC business, but how to maintain the stable growth is also facing the Intel thorny problem.
"Intelligent everything connected the next step is everything." RogerSheng told reporters that Intel hardware should be the focus of patterns to a service, system mode conversion.
Source: the source of the first financial daily, the first financial daily
