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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gary Ng who wrote (58551)5/18/1999 1:25:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571736
 
Gary,

Do you know someone who is familiar with this kind of
accounting treatment ?

I'm an engineer, not an accountant. I am very familiar however with how much more expensive microprocessor development is than the manufacturing costs. Intel processors cost hundreds of millions of dollars before the first part goes out the door. The Quickturn boxes alone probably cost a hundred million dollars.

Scumbria



To: Gary Ng who wrote (58551)5/18/1999 6:08:00 AM
From: nihil  Respond to of 1571736
 
In general, research and experimental expenditures may be expensed (deducted) in the taxable year in which incurred. Elections are possible to delay deductions to inflate current earnings, but Intel is not dumb enough to try this kind of window dressing. I guess the P6 core research was expensed in the early 90's.


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