14 DAY TRIAL // Looks like Intel is going to feel some aftereffects from how HDDs are going to sell less, because it just announced a downward adjustment of its Q4 2011 revenue forecast.
Hard drives will be short because of the floods in Thailand, which affected many factories, so PCs will sell less and, thus, so will CPUs (central processing units).
Before now, Intel expected to rake in $14.7 billion in the October-December, 2011 period.
Now, though, the company thinks its sales won't be quite so huge.
Instead, it foresees total revenue of $13.7 billion, meaning that the hard disk drive shortage will inflict $1 billion worth of damage on it.
Normally, $1 billion would be a huge deal, but Intel is such a large-scale player that it won't actually suffer too much from this setback.