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Wait, are they losing money on every one in the sense that they haven't broken even on research and development yet? Or in the sense that they cost more to manu
by derektank 2y ago
Wait, are they losing money on every one in the sense that they haven't broken even on research and development yet? Or in the sense that they cost more to manufacture than they're sold at? Because one is much worse than the other.
- rockskon 2y agoThey're trying to unseat Radeon as the budget card. That means making a more enticing offer than AMD for a temporary period of time.
- ryao 2y agoThe former is likely true, but the latter is not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42505496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42505496 That being said, the IP blocks are shared by their iGPUs, so the discrete GPUs do not need to recoup the costs of most of the R&D, as it would have been done anyway for the iGPUs.