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Re: After losing Apple's iPad business, Intel has bled $7 billion while heavily subsidizing cheap x86 Atom Android tablets

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On 16/11/2014 5:31 PM, Intel Guy wrote:
> After losing Apple's iPad business, Intel has bled $7 billion while
> heavily subsidizing cheap x86 Atom Android tablets
>
> November 16, 2014
>
> Over the last two years, Intel's mobile chip division has lost $7
> billion while heavily subsidizing the manufacturing costs of Android
> Atom tablet makers. It now plans to phase out those generous incentives,
> which will make it more expensive for iPad competitors to dump cheap
> tablets into the market.
>
> Apple has been selling tens of millions of iPads in competition with a
> series of loss leader giveaways from Samsung and regular fire sales of
> flop tablets, including the HP TouchPad, BlackBerry PlayBook, Motorola
> Xoom, Dell Streak, Microsoft Surface, Cisco Cius, HTC Flyer, Google
> Nexus and Amazon Kindle Fire.

Interesting, but most of those "flop tablets" were using ARM processors, 
not Intel processors, Microsoft Surface being the only exception. This 
article is going out of its way to make it look like the Atom was in all 
of these tablets, when the actual story is that even amongst the flops, 
it was barely in even any one of them.

	Yousuf Khan

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After losing Apple's iPad business, Intel has bled $7 billion while  heavily subsidizing cheap x86 Atom Android tablets Intel Guy <"Intel"@Guy . com> - 2014-11-16 17:31 -0500
  Re: After losing Apple's iPad business, Intel has bled $7 billion while heavily subsidizing cheap x86 Atom Android tablets Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2014-11-21 03:26 -0500

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