Sales of Intel processors fall, Ryzen is to blame

AMD's Ryzen processors have been a huge success since their launch last March, and Intel should rightly be concerned.

Sales of Intel desktop processors fell 7%

Intel, however, is claiming that Ryzen has not affected the company's profits; A statement that, while true, does not acknowledge that sales of its desktop CPUs have declined by 7% since Ryzen has been in stores. Despite the success of AMD's processor, we can't be sensational, Intel reported revenue of $ 14.8 billion in the first quarter of 2017, representing a revenue increase of 8% over the same period last year. Much of these benefits are said to be due to modem sales to Apple.

According to Seeking Alpha's Mark Hibben report, the success of AMD Ryzen 7 sales in early March may have had an impact on Intel's finances but have been obscured by modem sales to Apple that did not exist in the first 2016 quarter, this appears to have accommodated the numbers despite the 7% decline in desktop CPU sales in that quarter.

The launch of Ryzen has been a complete success

It doesn't take a financial expert to realize that Ryzen's success directly impacts sales of Intel processors. While the Santa Clara company decreased processor sales by an estimated value of $ 150 million, Ryzen's sales brought AMD $ 152 million in benefits.

A few days ago, Intel forecast that the prices of its processors would decrease in 2017, precisely to make them more competitive against the new proposals from AMD based on the Zen architecture.

Source: eteknix