Wow talk about generalities on your part... this is business, not a tea party. Intel retaining marketshare is just a way of life in the big bad mpu war.
An unfortunate by-product of oligopolies, price wars wreak havoc on companies by squeezing profit margins and, in some cases, forcing dramatic cost cuts. As shown by Intel's fourth-quarter report Tuesday evening, surviving such a battle is no easy feat. Intel's quarterly earnings fell a shocking 39% from the same period a year ago, despite the sale of a record number of microprocessors and flash memory chips. In addition to pricing pressure, a good chunk of the loss was due to restructuring charges, as well as factory start-up and factory underutilization charges.
Intel's execs warned that the price wars with AMD will continue in 2007 and provided a cautious outlook that
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