Intel Impressive Q3 Earnings, Stock 17 Year High, Strongest day for 3 Years

Just before everyone heads off to their weekend,  Intel posted an impressive Q3 earnings despite insurgency from AMD's Ryzen. Every Intel's division beat out expectations, certainly from the PC community due to the rise of AMD in 2017, which positioned itself as a strong and direct competitor to Intel's core business after a three-year break, Intel has been a monopoly within the time frame.


On Friday, Intel stock (INTC) closed up 7.4% at $44.40.

• Earning Per Share (EPS): $1.01 vs $0.80 expected
• Overal revenue: $16.15 billion vs $15.73 billion expected
• Client computing revenue: $8.86 billion vs $8.68 billion expected
• Data center revenue: $4.88 billion vs $4.79 billion expected

However, despite Intel's PC business still being the company's biggest earner, the revenue is basically flat compared to a year ago. Meanwhile, what's really making a growth is from their data center, Internet of Things (LoT), and memory businesses collectively grew 15 percent year-over-year. 

• Data center group grew 7% 
• LoT division grew 23%
• Nonvolatile memory group grew 37%
• Programmable solutions group grew 10%

Still managing to secure a 78% CPU market share, spreading focus above and beyond, Intel found itself in a really good position after AMD reentered the PC processor business attacking both mainstream and server levels.

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Transmit Unhackable Data by Using Quantum Satellite

For the first time, China demonstrated the world a way of sending data over long distances that is potentially unhackable. By relying on quantum cryptography, the satellite can send data via photons from space to Earth. This technology could be huge for next generation cybersecurity, and groundbreaking for making safer businesses, also more difficult for governments to hack into communications.

Last August, China launched a quantum satellite into space, a move which was described as a "notable advance" by the Pentagon. By using this satellite, researchers at the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) project were able to transmit secret messages from space to Earth at a further distance than ever before.

Quantum key distribution (QKD), a typical encryption technology relies on traditional mathematics, only now it is paired with a faster and more powerful computer called quantum computing. QKD then works by using photons, the particles that transmit light, to transfer data.

This encryption technique is supposedly unbreakable mainly because the data is carried via photon, which cannot be perfectly copied and any attempt to measure it will disturb it, meaning that whoever tries to intercept the data will leave a trace.