They are definitely selling them at close to no profit, but they are not anywhere near subsidizing them unless they botched their supply chain so badly that they are overpaying the BOM costs.
Even selling at cost is a subsidy.
I'm proud to support them. Intel is also selling their lunar lake chips fairly cheaply too. Let's all hope they make it through this rough patch. I can't imagine a world where we only have one x86 manufacturer.
Does it even matter? Some people won’t notice even if there are zero x86 manufacturers.
In fact I would say lots of people have not bought x86 CPU in while, between Mac, RPi and risc-v boards…
Competition is always good
A number of businesses have switched to using arm EC2 servers from x86 EC2 servers for lower costs and things work fine on them.
x86 isn't going anywhere for a long time.
Imagine if AMD never existed. Everything about owning a computer would be worse. Likewise now we need Intel ( or someone else, perhaps a Chinese OEM) to make competition.
> Acer Arc A770 16gb GPU w/Free Game & Shipping $229.99 $229.99 $399.99 at Newegg
Sure that margin is holding when they had to mark the first generation down to get them off the shelves. It would truly surprise me if they've made a significant profit off these cards.