Andy Bryant
Andy Bryant
Andy Bryant is the current Chairman of the multinational semiconductor company Intel. He joined Intel in 1981 and previously served as the company's vice chairman, chief administrative officer and chief financial officer. Bryant works out of the company's offices in Hillsboro, Oregon, and lives in Portland. He also serves on the board of directors for McKesson Corp., Columbia Sportswear, and Kryptiq...
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Our expectation for gross margin percentage in the third quarter is 47 percent, plus or minus a couple of points. The change from the second quarter is driven largely by lower average selling prices of microprocessors.
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We are well way to meeting our 2001 target of $7.5 billion in capital spending having deployed just under two-thirds of this in the first half. The bulk of these dollars have gone to new technologies that enable us to make products at higher volumes with lower overall unit costs and higher performance.
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What we're trying to do is win back market segment share at the low end, and we did that in the first quarter. You'll see us continue to compete very aggressively. On the other hand, you won't see us lowering prices more than we need to to win the business.
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Our pricing strategy is no different than what we said earlier in the quarter, ... We said early in the first quarter we're going to take back the low end. This is consistent with what we said in early January.
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We will still invest in technology. We will make the company more efficient.
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We under-forecasted demand beginning in last year's third and fourth quarters. I don't have enough product to be as aggressive as I would like to be.
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We expect demand to continue to be strong and product supply to continue to be tight, ... We're still chasing capacity at this point in time. We're seeing strong demand for flash, networking and microprocessors, and I don't see when that gets into equilibrium.
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The simple answer is, we anticipated third-party chip sets coming into the market quicker than they did. The chip-set imbalance we think got us, hopefully, one last time.
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The results are consistent with the outlook (we announced) in October. Growth in emerging markets, demand for (notebook computers) and demand in manufacturing are delivering healthy growth in Intel's revenue.
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Revenues turned the corner and were up slightly from last year, driven by significant year-to-year growth in the Intel architecture business,
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Right now we're tight across everything we make, ... We can meet a seasonally strong second half, but we have not commented on if the demand is stronger than expected.
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Operating results for the quarter are consistent with our outlook in July. We continue to see healthy growth worldwide in the PC market and in Intel's revenue and gross profit.
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Sometimes it is important to have a different and original idea itself to promote something. Often times, creativity is the key for attention grabbing and instant impact.
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Competition is pretty fierce out there right now.