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A dispute over how much profit Intel stood to take from each chip sold to the Japanese electronics giant blocked Intel from settling on the price with Sony,
Yeah that's what I thought, Intel simply isn't competitive. For a console SOC the CPU part eats about twice the power of an AMD, and the GPU part cost about twice to make, because it needs twice the die area to compete with AMD on performance. This creates design restrictions, and makes the system more expensive to build.
I'm surprised Intel was even in the game, they'd obviously have to sell at a deficit to compete. Maybe it was to prevent AMD from getting a sweet deal?
If Intel were serious about it, and had confidence in their technologies, they'd have taken a bad deal now, and improved their technologies to make it profitable later. But Intel already has problems with profitability, so maybe they won't take on another loss giving investment.
When AMD took the console business from Nvidia/Intel, they made a cutthroat offer, that Nvidia refused to compete with, and now AMD is dominant and make good money on consoles.
Another good decision by Intel execs. /s
I was surprised to see that their negotiations broke down because of price/cost as opposed to technology (unproven node and to my knowledge intel doesn't really have any experience with semi-custom x86 business).