Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

cruzbay,

OK, let's see: ~35K Itaniums sold last year, at (you tell me) an average of $1500 each, comes to a grand total of $52 million dollars. If the chipsets were $400 each, that adds a whopping $14 million, total revenues (skipping your nebulous "toolchains and libraries") coming to $66M.

Most of Itaniums are sold by HP and HP has its own chipset. I think some 80% are sold by HP. If another 10% are sold by SGI, you have 10%, or 3,500 Itanium sold by others. If the average # of CPUs in these boxes is 4, there are less than 1,000 Itanium chipsets sold by Intel. With $400,000 revenue per quarter, Intel is losing a bundle. It is doubtful that Intel makes enough money for the mask sets. Intel may be losing $10 for each $1 of chipset revenue.

Joe