Intel Builds Atom CPU For $8, Sells It For Up To $135

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For a company like Intel, the "hidden" costs (R&D, marketing, bribes, etc) must be a huge proportion of the per-unit overheads. Sounds like someone at Tom's Guide wants to make headlines imho.

I'm not saying that Intel are only making peanuts, but the production costs of a wafer are not going to be the major outgoings for such a company.

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HopperJF wrote:

ChuckT wrote:
In some ways, Intel has to pay for its overhead but in other ways they are making a 150% to 1588% markup.

Intel’s profit margin

Interesting, but kind of contradicts the story of the EU doing an early morning raid on DSG because their Intel prices were "too cheap" to be competitive with AMD.

This means that customers pay more.

Thanks a lot EU-bunch of w**kers!  :-)

Link

Good grief, I feel sullied. There was no warning or anything. WARNING: clicking the link above will take you to the Daily Express website.

Shudder (thinks about wiping laptop hard drive and reinstalling windows)