> How come losing money is an improvement? Purchasing a company is not necessarily "losing money" unless no synergy is possible between core competences. But

> How come losing money is an improvement? Purchasing a company is not necessarily "losing money" unless no synergy is possible between core competences. But in fact, Altera/Intel's respective core competences suggest programmable logic devices next to high-speed multi-core CPUs may be one way to keep Moore's law going (See http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20140624-intel/ http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20140624-intel/ for example).