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



 
 
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Old November 21st 14, 09:26 AM posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.mobile.android
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default After losing Apple's iPad business, Intel has bled $7 billionwhile heavily subsidizing cheap x86 Atom Android tablets

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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