> It's a long term loss, despite a short term gain. While I dislike market segmentation as much as anyone, it seems like it worked out ok for Nvidia. It let t

> It's a long term loss, despite a short term gain. While I dislike market segmentation as much as anyone, it seems like it worked out ok for Nvidia. It let them keep a (very) profitable segment of the business, which in turn financed other developments and let them become the GPU leader for a very long time. No idea how it'll play out in the end of course, but we're definite past the whole "short term" time frame.