Intel Reports Record Year for Revenue: $54 Billion

We posted earlier this week that Intel might experience a hit to its sales revenue during 2012 due to the timing of Windows 8’s launch, but putting that aside for the time-being, the company has just announced its best-ever year-over-year financial report. In total, the company reached $54 billion in total revenue, a staggering 24% bump from the previous year. With this, Intel now generates over $1B per week in revenue on average.

Most of this revenue belonged to the PC Client Group, as expected, which held $35.4 billion, up 17% of 2010. The Data Center Group was Intel’s second-most profitable segment, commanding $10.1 billion, for another increase of 17% over 2010. With all these increases, there was indeed a loss – one that belongs to Atom. Its sales dropped 25% year-over-year, but still remained responsible for $1.2 billion of Intel’s revenue.

Intel has been setting new records for itself with each new financial statement for a while, so it’ll be interesting to see if that trend will continue straight through 2012, going against the idea that the company will suffer from slow sales due to Windows 8. Intel isn’t a company that’s ever slow with follow-up products, and Ivy Bridge will be that this year. That is slated for release sometime this spring, so we’ll see if many people are willing to adopt the new architecture at that time ahead of Windows 8.

One thing’s for sure – AMD’s Bulldozer launch sure didn’t hurt Intel.