Thread, the real "revenue gap" was $870M, not $500M.
Intel Architecture Business Group
Q2'99 Q1'99 Comment
Revenues 5,559 6,429 13.5% drop
Op.Profit 2,305 2,944 21.7% drop
All Other Business Groups
Revenues 1,187 674 76% increase
Op.Profit (loss) 15 (307)
In fact, the entire improvement in margins and then
some should be ascribed to the non-CPU business.
Intel's CPU revenues dropped $870M, and since there were
apparently 25M CPU's in each quarter, that is equal
to $35 per CPU.
Finally, a 76% increase in revenues in non-CPU business is
not as impressive as first glance, since these "sales $"
were purchased by buying companies using shareholders money.
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