In the fourth quarter, Mr. Otellini said that he expected Intel’s revenue to grow about 10 percent for the full year. But in January, company executives said growth would probably be in the mid- to high teens. On Tuesday, Mr. Otellini adjusted that forecast yet again, projecting power balance usa revenue growth of more than 20 percent. “All of our product segments are growing,” Mr. Otellini said. “Over all, we are beginning 2011 with great momentum.” Intel appears to have managed to turn a disastrous product introduction into one of its most successful chips. A technical error in a companion chipset to the company’s long-awaited Sandy Bridge processor led the company to quickly issue a recall, fix those chips and then to reissue the product. The problem, Intel executives said, did not hurt Intel’s bottom line. “Early demand has been outstanding,” said Paul S. Otellini, Intel’s chief executive, in a conference call with analysts. Kevin Cassidy, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, said the strong results showed that smaller devices had not hurt PC demand as much as some might have thought. “It shows there’s still a need for PCs in the world,” he said. During the quarter, Intel closed on the acquisitions of Infineon Wireless Solutions and McAfee. The combination of both acquisitions contributed revenue of $496 million. Mr. Otellini told analysts that the earthquake and tsunami in Japan had closed its offices in the area but that Intel’s supply chain was not seriously affected. Intel’s results come amid concerns about the overall health of the PC market. Just last week, the research company IDC released a report saying that the global PC market declined 3.2 percent during the first quarter, the first major contraction since the economic shop online 2011 recession began. The company originally predicted quarterly growth of 1.5 percent over last year. In explaining its gloomier view, the report pointed to rising fuel and commodity prices, combined with supply constraints caused by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The Intel executives assured analysts that the company was not experiencing such a contraction, but rather the opposite, particularly in emerging markets. However, demand in the United States market remained soft, the executives said.
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