Let me spare you the time of futile searching, then:
Intel does not sell it's processors to the public at a loss. The public actually pays a premium on their processors. The companies that pay the lowest margin are the Dells, HPs, Apples and such. We're still making money on them, but not the same margin we make off of processor sales to the public. Though, the % of our proffit that is made by these three is substantial.
And don't get hung up on % of increase or decrease in proffit kev. It's a fool's trap... especially when one company is hovering around breaking even. AMD going from 17 million in proffit to 100 million looks like a huge leap in terms of %, but it's just noise. Intel's proffit margin is dropping, as will AMDs (this quarter). AMD's % proffit will also drop significantly after aquisition costs of ATI kick in and have driven them to delay the startup of a new manufacturing fab in NY.
AMD has no room for dropping revenue right now. Intel does. Intel also has plenty of room to lower the proffit margin on their processors, as they are accounting for most of Intel's revenue right now.
There is no other product sold at Intel that comes close to generating enough revenue to enable Intel to sell processors at a loss. No company subsidises their main product with lesser products... that's not the way it works. The main product subsidises lesser products. Right now, proffits from chip sales pay for an $800 million loss on other ventures such as communications and Wi-Fi projects.
The only company I know of that has subsidised it's processor sales in the last decade has actually been AMD who had a quarter where all of their proffits were a result of flash memory sales and the processor division actually lost money.
