We had actually forecasted a pause in [data center] purchasing based on what we knew of the big cloud players' ordering patterns, Intel's chief financial officer Stacy Smith said on a conference call on Wednesday. And based on the signals we're seeing from them, we do expect a re-acceleration in the back of the year to something more consistent with what we're seeing through the last couple years.The cloud that we have today is really built on the backs of people. It's your Facebook data, it's your Salesforce data, it's your Twitter data. The current estimates are, if you look out into 2020, that average person will generate about 1.5GB a day of data off those devices, and those are going to be all your posts and pictures and all that kind of information.If you take a look at the average autonomous car in 2020, the estimates right now are it will throw off about 40GB a minute of data. If you take a look at the average autonomous drone doing some kind of scan, looking for somebody lost in the forest or scanning a mine, it's going to throw off about 20GB a minute.So it's that growth in data and the need to both process it at the edge and then through the data center and into the cloud, to be able to store it, to be able to apply machine learning to all of those applications. Those all tell me that the cloud is going to continue to grow.

It's going to be lumpy, he admitted. These guys [the big public cloud providers] don't build out their data centers in a linear fashion. They build out a big chunk of overcapacity so that they can go and then sell that and have expansion space, and they don't build for a while.And so I know people worry, 'is it slowing down?' But these trends in data that tell me no, it's not slowing down over the long term, and what you're really going to see is just the buying patterns and the build-outs of the various structures that are going up.Interestingly, the big boss was coy about Intel's modem chips. Apple is said to be considering using Chipzilla's radio chipsets for future iPhones as well as the Qualcomm silicon it's been using to date. Krzanich was asked if he could talk a little about the future of that business. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, the chief executive seemed to say: the x86 goliath first wants to prove it can make a go of modems with the XMM 7360 and then start thinking big.I'm more concerned about getting the leading-edge momentum going for us with the 7360 and then the follow-on in 2017 and really showing that we are a world-class modem company, he said.

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Patrick Moorhead, a tech industry veteran and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, said everyone expected the hit from the restructuring – but not the slowing Data Center Group growth.The biggest area of concern and the reason why Intel's stock price is down is due to the Data Center Group: they had planned in double-digit growth and they came in at single-digit growth, Moorhead told The Register.I will give Intel the benefit of the doubt in that it will hit that growth for the year. For one thing, there's the market size to consider, and the availability of new Broadwell processors.Intel tracks at a micron level its enterprise and public cloud customers. It knows exactly what's going on right down to their hardware purchasing and rollouts, hence its confidence for the rest of the year.On the consumer side, it's not entirely doom and gloom, either: demand is growing for two-in-one laptop-tablet convertible PCs, which Intel can supply the chips for, while smartphone sales stall and tablets remain in free fall.

Intel wins whether it's Apple or HP that sells a computer, Moorhead noted.The consumer market has turned into a bookend market: people buy either the cheapest or the best they can get. But they still need devices with large screens, even the kids who start off with smartphones: they need a keyboard and monitor to do their work and research online. In three to four years, there will still be a need for a device with a keyboard and a large display, that's fundamentally not going to change.The tablet market has declined 30 to 40 per cent. We piled on PCs because smartphones were doing so well, and the tablet market got as big as the PC market with about 300 million units a year. Now the PC market is looking better than the tablet market and growth has stopped in smartphones. In a few years from now we're see an attitudinal resurgence in PCs. The department entrusted with the protection of corporate data is seemingly somewhat less bothered when it comes to guarding personal info.The Intellectual Property Office yesterday made the classic schoolboy error of sending out an email containing hundreds of recipients in the 'to' field.

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Realising its blunder minutes later, the body recalled its missive only to send the message with the same email addresses contained in the 'to' field.It does beg the question why a government department is relying on someone to manually send out e-mails like this from their mail client rather than using a proper CRM/mailer daemon, noted one Reg reader who was included in the gaffe.We apologise for any inconvenience caused, we've taken appropriate steps to ensure this doesn't happen again.Ironically, more information was displayed in the 'to' field than in the body of the email itself, which simply included a link to the IP Connect newsletter. Among promises that the IPO will continue to uphold an outstanding environment for intellectual property post Brexit, the newsletter said:“We remain committed to working with industry to ensure that producers, workers and the public are protected from fraudsters.Security boffins at ANZ, one of Australia's largest banks, have offered their nightHawk incident response tools for organisations running free Mandiant tools.

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