Intel Fourth-Quarter Sales Drop 23%, Missing Forecast
@ 2009/01/07The stock declined as much as 6.7 percent after Intel said revenue fell to $8.2 billion from $10.7 billion a year earlier. In November, Intel forecast that sales would be about $9 billion, compared with an earlier prediction of at least $10.1 billion. Plummeting sales at Intel, whose chips run about 80 percent of the world’s personal computers, signal falling demand across the technology industry.