While Intel’s sales were flat in 2008, Taiwan was one of the few geographic regions where sales increased. According to the chipmaker’s recently released annual report, revenues from Taiwan increased about 15% in 2008 to US$9.9 billion, while the company’s overall sales of US$37.6 billion were down a slight 2%. Leading the way in terms of sales growth in 2008 for all geographic regions was the Americas (outside of the US), where sales were up 16.5%. Japan was the only other sales region that saw growth in 2008, at a slight 1.5%.

Taiwan accounted for more than 26% of Intel’s sales in 2008, up from 22% in 2007.

Operating revenues for Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, which includes desktop and nettop computers, enterprise computing servers and workstations and embedded applications were down 3% in 2008, while the company’s Mobility Group saw its sales increase 7%. However, in terms of operating profits, the Mobility Group saw a drop of 7% from the previous year, while profits were up 22% for the Digital Enterprise Group.

The Digital Enterprise Group accounted for 55% of the company’s revenues and more than 70% of its profits.

In 2008, Hewlett-Packard (HP) accounted for 20% of Intel’s net revenues, up from 17% in 2007, and Dell accounted for 18% of net revenues, up from 18% in 2007. No other customer accounted for more than 10% of net revenues.