Intel Corporation revealed on Wednesday that its highest revenue source in the Asia-Pacific is largely due to the robust Chinese mainland's consumption and outsourcing market.
Joseph M La Valle, the company's Asia Pacific director of sales, said at a press conference that the sales growth of personal computers are relatively flat in the United States, but that for the Chinese mainland continues to be strong.
In the fourth quarter of 2001, Intel recorded a revenue of US$7 billion, of which 35 percent was gained through its Asian Pacific sales.
La Valle added that the demand for cellular phones is also relatively flat in the United States and Western Europe, but it grows rapidly on the Chinese mainland.
As the Chinese mainland is developing its design capability, a lot of US companies are coming here to have their products designed and built, and the move, thereby, helps increase the sales of Intel's chipsets, he said.
Intel currently works with hundreds of mainland companies on its traditional computer processors, and also with dozens of mainland companies on its newly launched Xscale series of micro-processors.
(China Daily February 21, 2002)
