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intel, IBM, AMD and nvidia is losing money

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See, this is why Warcraft IV will never happen.
Four capitalism juggernauts are tanking, thanks to China's abysmally overvalued stock market. That in turn has led to the painful effects that we Westerns have been the victims of, with both the American DOW Jones losing hundreds of points and individual European stock markets dropping by up to -7%.
Now the uninformed populace that stays up-to-date through FOX News and its equally horrifying, European counterpart RTL News, is taking this piece of information in the wrong way. Xenophobia towards the Chinese is on the rise once again and people have started becoming scared of what is to happen to their precious currencies.
This fear of theirs translates into them spending less and starting to save up whatever cash they have left at the moment, whilst they try to comprehend the economic situation they've been plunged into.
Obviously, less consumer spending means less income for these so-called 'tech juggernauts'. And that my friend, is why they lost some money back in 2014 and not in 2015 when the economic fiasco is actually taking place.
Now all that is good, but you might be asking yourself what Warcraft IV has to do with cash downfall. Well, as you know, Blizzard Entertainment's main audience is the PC-gamer realm. And who makes the components of the players' machine? Why, Intel and AMD with their processors, NVIDIA and once again AMD with their graphic cards and IBM with its wide array of both hardware and software.
Now if these ginormous companies start losing their share of the prey, which I'm afraid to say is all of us, Blizzard becomes anxious.
True, it's quite the big company, when you also add in the fact that they've merged with Activision. Yet their primary market is still the PC field. So if they start seeing losses on the side of those manufacturing the devices on which their games are meant to be played, they'll stop considering new developments for that specific platform.
As you can see, they've already started shifting towards the console world, with the release of a Diablo III port for the XBOX and PlayStation systems.
Now you can't expect them to develop Warcraft IV for the console. It's by nature an RTS which requires both 'macroing' and 'microing' skills, which a console controller does not allow.
Thus, to conclude my dear Andreas, Blizzard is personally witnessing the degradation of the PC platform and is abandoning ship, though at the same time boarding the console boat.
So take of yourself, for a cold storm is coming and not many will be spared.
 

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all 4 companies economies show red for 2014.
Well duh. They are not stupid and know that profit is bad financially.

Governments tax profit, they do not tax loss. Better to run up a slight debt (with good interest rate since you are a big company) than pay out tax on profit. You can blow all your profit away on investments which will generate more revenue in the future (and offset the slight debt).

ARM makes a profit because it is a technology investment company. Unlike Intel, AMD and NVidia which design and sell fully functional hardware, ARM only designs and sells parts of hardware. If you are a chip manufacture you go to ARM, ask for some CPU designs for a technology node and they give you all the layout data. You take these designs, place them in your technology node and add designs for peripherals and things around them. The end result is you design a new good performance processor component paying only an ARM licence and not the billions needed to develop a similar processor. Better yet is that programming your processor is like programming another companies processor which also uses ARM, you get the ARM compilers, change some hardware level parts and it works.

Intel, IBM, AMD and NVidia sell complete chips at specific technology nodes. You cannot ask Intel for designs to use in your own chip.

The result is that companies like ARM can be a lot more reactive with their spending than companies like Intel since they can choose what technologies to develop and have no direct manufacturing to worry about. Additionally ARM sells to markets not able to be touched by companies like Intel.

We also cannot rule out ARM's cooperate structure. It could be that share specific large shareholders gain from profit and so force profit so they earn more from the shares.

Just so people know, ARM processors generally perform worse than Intel or AMD processors and definitely perform a lot worse than IBM processors. They are perfect where ultra high performance is not required or where energy efficiency is important (eg a mobile phone) but bad for where performance is required (games console like PS4/XB1). Critical performance applications like bank's automatic trader systems can only use IBM processors as they are the fastest you can get (any other processor will lose you a lot of money). This is why until recently IBM processors were used in games consoles since they just were faster however this practice has changed recently with AMD pushing its PC targeted x86-64 processors into consoles for cost efficiency.

IBM used technologies like multi-core processors, pipe-lining etc long before Intel did. They have and probably always will be the cutting edge of processors.
 
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