Wow, never thought I'd read that line!

Don't read too much into that. Intel's flashram business is effectively a separate company from the CPU business, and from the video chipset business, and from the motherboard business, and from the white box server business, and so on. It's all accounting tricks, but what it amounts to is that the parent can take a take writeoff on a business that's losing money to offset the taxes due from a profitable business. The side effect is that each business unit has to negotiate its own credit.