Intel shocks everyone, including itself, with record Q1 earnings

This is starting to get a bit repetitive, but we're sure Intel will never tire of hearing it: the chip maker just had its best quarter ever. The company expected to pull in roughly $ 11.6 billion, topping last quarter (and its previous record) by $ 500 million. Looks like the company was being conservative enough to make Pat Robertson blush -- it raked in a grand total of $ 12.8 billion in Q1 of 2011. About $ 500 million of that discrepancy can be explained by the acquisition of McAfee and

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