Trade tensions are giving Intel’s older chips a second life

A Sino-US trade war that threatens Intel‘s revenue from its biggest market, China, has become an unlikely driver of demand for the embattled chipmaker’s older generation of personal computer and server chips, company executives said on Thursday. A worsening economic outlook and the prospect of higher prices brought on by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs and Beijing’s retaliatory levies is prompting customers to fall back on cheaper, older processors.

“In client, we are seeing strong demand on older-gen parts and in data center…