On 2 Dec 2005, at 22:59:460, Hayes Elkins wrote:
From: James Boswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <[email protected]>
To: The Hardware List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] -LO- CNet does a test workout: Dual Core AMD vs.
DualCoreIntel
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 21:38:19 +0000
865 was culled because it was old, the rest were absolute bottom
end, you can put money on them selling boatloads of i945
chipsets, i955X chipsets, and the forthcoming i975 chipset
though... and that's where the money is, in the middle ground
where the volumes are high and the margins aren't pitiful.
You want to supply a link showing that the 945, 955 and 975
chipsets make up the bulk of their sales this year? They certainly
are higher margin, but I would not call them "high volume" just
yet. The majority of Intel desktops sold this year did not have any
of these chipsets.
The majority of the money almost certainly comes from the 945/955/975
because they haven't given up on them, basic logic is enough for me
to deduce that, they make money on them, they don't on the low end
chipsets, ergo the low end chipsets get culled.
I fail to see how you're corroborating 'they cull a bunch of low
end products' with 'they only make money on mobile chipsets' Hayes.
Actually the corroboration makes perfect sense to somebody with
reading comprehension. Intel makes very little profit on low end
chipsets that happen make up a huge share of their total shipments.
They'd rather shift their manufacturing capacity towards more
profitable chipset products. Their highest margin chipset BY FAR
today is their PM chipset as they can charge a premium and get away
with it. They can not do so in a market saturated with competing
VIA, SiS, and NVIDIA products.
Good point, the centrino branding is probably quite the moneyspinner
for them.
anyway, the reason for not integrating a memory controller is likely
to be internal politics as much as anything, product subdivision
management wanting to keep their jobs springs to mind.
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