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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It appears that the Intel architecture business will return to seasonal patterns showing more strength in the second half.
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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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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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Our response to this downturn will be similar to others in our history, ... It may sound a bit trite, but Intel has the financial strength and management conviction to continue to invest in its key products and processes through these difficult times and emerge a better, more competitive company.
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Really, we only have analysis for Portland, Salem, Eugene and Astoria. We can't really do any analysis for Aurora because there aren't enough years for a true comparison.
adjusting economic expenses looking momentum recovery
Looking forward, however, we have yet to see the momentum of the economic recovery in our business. As a result, we will be adjusting our staffing expenses accordingly.
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We said that our goal in the quarter would be to maintain, and if possible, to gain some market share,
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We are starting a detailed review of all the businesses that have been losers with a much tougher eye than we have before.
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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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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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Wafers have been outsourced. Now logistics is another area that is being outsourced. Logistics is a very fast growing industry. Logistics is on fire.
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We're going to be right on the edge all the way through tomorrow morning as far as getting snow down to the valley floor.
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What we're seeing now doesn't happen every winter, but it certainly is not out of the normal realm of occurrences. The last few winters have been fairly quiet.
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We're just not seeing the demand pickup we'd like to see, and we hit a wall on some of the cost savings we were driving for.