Re: As you can see, everybody can buy one
What does it cost Intel to FAB, package, and test one of those die, then put it in a box with a good quality heatsink and fan and ship it to one of the dozens of on line retailer who sell it for <$40 after making some markup?
Many of the people who buy one of these $40 parts would otherwise have bought a $100 or $200 CPU from Intel.
Obviously, they aren't recouping any general, marketing, administrative, or FAB costs, but they can't even be recovering marginal costs.
Maybe they can make some of it up in chipset sales, except that there are 147 under $50 motherboards to choose from for this part that and they're almost all SiS, Via based.
What are Intel's profits going to be this quarter?