Intel spend $2.9 billion on R&D per quarter - but how do NVIDIA and AMD's figures compare?

[PCGamesN]

[url]http://www.pcgamesn.com/intel-spends-29-billion-on-rd-per-quarter-but-how-do-nvidia-and-amds-figures-compare[/url]

[Mitsuma]

Oh PCGamesN. Good writeup of articles that were all over the net 8 months ago.
[url]http://wccftech.com/amd-budget-lowest-10-years/[/url]
[url]http://techreport.com/news/28033/report-amd-r-d-spending-falls-to-near-10-year-low[/url]

Including these charts that a lot of people probably already saw.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/THiGSLI.png[/img]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/CBSudwI.png[/IMG]

[FalconKrunch]

You can't really compare those R&D budgets anyway because AMD, Nvidia, and especially Intel also spend their budget on different things other than processor architecture.

[BiN4RY]

[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;49266932]You can't really compare those R&D budgets anyway because AMD, Nvidia, and especially Intel also spend their budget on different things other than processor architecture.[/QUOTE]

Everything else is negligible. CPU/GPU architecture makes up for the most significant chunk of their R&D budget anyways.