Last week, AMD warned that its fourth quarter revenue would fall short of expectations. Intel has now posted its fourth quarter results (PDF), and unsurprisingly, the company has had a more profitable fourth quarter than AMD. Intel's revenue went up from $8.7 billion in the third quarter to $9.7 billion in the fourth quarter, and its operating income rose from $1.4 billion to $1.5 billion. Of course, those results don't hold a candle to those from a year before: in the fourth quarter of 2005, Intel had revenue of $10.2 billion and operating income of a whopping $2.5 billion. The company's margins have dropped 12.2 points since 2005, as well, likely due to a price war with AMD.
At the end of its financial report, Intel says it has produced samples of its upcoming 45nm processor code-named "Penryn," and that those samples can successfully boot Windows Vista, MacOS X, Windows XP, and Linux.
