Today's FPGA's take maybe 10x-20x more chip area, hence much more expensive than the same logic implemented in an ASIC,Same goes with power, so selling FPGA's w

Today's FPGA's take maybe 10x-20x more chip area, hence much more expensive than the same logic implemented in an ASIC,Same goes with power, so selling FPGA's would be more profitable in and of itself, plus having a full ecosystem doing r&d on FPGA algorithms which Intel can later build into chips and sell.