Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 8:22:16 +0000, Michael S wrote:

On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:49:21 +0000
mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote:

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I do not believe that the sales revenue even met the engineering and
manufacturing costs.
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ASP was certainly many time higher than manufacturing cost, esp. after
migration to 90nm in 2006.
Engineering cost was huge up until 2010, but significant part of what
was spent in 2005-2010 (development of QPI) was reused by Xeons.

Engineering costs were at least 200 engineers for 2 decades at
approximately $200K/engineer/year. ½ salary ½ SW+HW+overhead.
This turn out to be $0.8B sales costs would be extra.
Did they sell $1B of these things ??

In 2010-2012 engineering cost was probably quite moderate.
From 2013 to EOL in 2022 engineering cost was very low.
So, even if Itanium  enterprise as whole lost a lot of money its
last 12-13 years taken in isolation were likely quite profitable.