Losses vs not profitable enough

By: Gionatan Danti (g.danti.delete@this.assyoma.it), August 1, 2022 12:34 pm
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dmcq (dmcq.delete@this.fano.co.uk) on August 1, 2022 11:50 am wrote:
> Mark Roulo (nothanks.delete@this.xxx.com) on August 1, 2022 10:15 am wrote:
> > I can also imagine that management doesn't see a path to profitability.
> >
> > If you are losing money on a product and can't see a way to
> > make that product profitable it makes sense to get out.
> >
> > This isn't the same thing as getting out of a profitable business that
> > you don't like because it is too small or not profitable *enough*.
>
> Micron would have gone ahead with it if they thought it could be made profitable.
> I think possibly Intel just went through a phase of overestimsting their ability
> to get things working. After all they did the same thing almost with 14nm where they
> overestimated their ability to get new ideas working in a reasonable timeframe.

Well, it can be very well that the business can not be made profitable at all. If so, axing it was the right decision from a management standpoint.

Still, losing the only (relatively) large capacity PCM tech on the market is sad from a technical standpoint.

Regards.
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