Looks like Intel's having its best quarter ever all over again -- this time, the company's reporting $3.0 billion in profit on a record $11.1 billion in revenue. Chipzilla attributes the increases to three percent increases in laptop and server chips sales respectively, but none to Atom-based netbooks -- sales of Atom chips actually decreased by four percent. That may be more than you needed or wanted to know about the booming processor business, but humanitarians will be pleased to know it's not all about the silicon; Intel also hired 1,300 new flesh-and-blood employees last quarter to keep the machines running.
