Intel earned 55% operating profit from the PC segment in 2011, which is constant across all the above sub-segments.

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The weakness in the PC segment will likely show up when Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP) report during their offset cycle.

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At the same time, the PC segment of the industry continues to take on characteristics of the home and consumer electronics industry, which favors enormous economies of scale and a focus on individual users and buyers.

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Netbooks have been a growth segment for the PC market over the last year.

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It estimates that this segment of the PC market will be essentially flat until 2017 with units of 141 million.

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They asserts that the wireless communications segment is weaker than projected, due to disappointing TD-SCDMA handset releases in China, while PC builds are tracking slightly behind plan.

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