Hey, Intel
You must've RSVP'd for the Party Pooper Ball on accident. Heck, no one even invited Motorola
"Hey, do we want to invite Motorola?"
"No way, dude. You don't want that kind of gloom and doom infecting our rally fest."
But, sure enough, it shows up, carrying the bundt cake of profitability.
Now Intel says it's expecting no more than 6% in sequential revenue improvement from the third-quarter's $6.5 billion showing. In short, there's no way the fourth quarter will come close to the $6.98 billion posted in last year's final fiscal period. You've got more misses than a sorority house, Intel!
That just hurts, bud. Weren't we friends? And what's this about cutting your capital spending budget? Hungry industry mouths were banking on that trickle down. Does Applied Materials
Let's just call this party off and send everybody home. We asked you to bring the chips, and instead you brought the dip.