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To: pgerassi who wrote (118393)	4/6/2004 12:02:32 AM
From: Elmer Phud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Pete - Why then is Intel's revenue and more than all of the profit in the CPU division only? Well it's not. There are other profitable divisions in Intel but they roll up, along with other unprofitable divisions to make their group unprofitable overall. It's no secret, Intel's CPUs are funding other ventures. They don't want to rely on processors forever for growth. They are pumping a ton of money into comms of all sorts in hopes of establishing their architectures. They have the money to drill a lot of holes in hopes of hitting a gusher. It's no mystery. They have an enormous number of design wins and they have the capacity in place to fill those sockets if and when they take off. Intel is taking a risk and they can afford to take the chance. It's that simple. Regarding compilers. I believe I have shown that any claims that Intel's compilers aren't production worthy, aren't used or simply intended to produce good SPEC scores are hopelessly delusional. The fact that they are used for some of the highest revenue software products in use today, IBM DB2 and Oracle DataBase to name just 2, is in stark contrast to your claim that it is buggy and not a production compiler. They are also extensively used in scientific applications at CERN and leading Universities. While you may have had difficulties in the past perhaps it's time you take another look.