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Despite a super-positive fourth-quarter earnings call, Intel wasn't very pleased with enterprise spending in 2009, instead noting that consumers drove the company's revenue up.
"It was not a robust year in the enterprise," said Paul Otellini, CEO, Intel.
Otellini also expects that to change in 2010 while Intel does its part in helping push the corporate market. Not only will Intel release its eight-core Nehalem EX Xeon processor for servers with four or more sockets, but the chip maker also plans to replace every chip in its server portfolio with 32nm Westmere parts, and do so within the next 90 days, Otellini said.
"Companies that haven't bought in a while are -- and probably have been for a while -- planning their purchases for this week," John Spooner, an analyst with Technology Business Research, told eWeek. "So they can essentially put 32nm Xeon servers in their budgets now, and plan purchases for the rest of the year."
Spooner went on to say something we've heard several times before, which is that there exists a lot of pent up demand.
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FrancesTheMute
January 19, 2010 at 4:18pm
maybe my compay is different, but I know we spent a crapload of money last year on new hardware, all Dell's using Intel CPUs.
