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Intel to carry on subsidising tablets
I thought I had read where the tablets Intel was subsidizing were 8
inches and smaller. This article says it was 10 inches and smaller, but might change that now to 12". Which basically means all tablets (are there any that are larger?). I just recently found out that there were 7 or 8" bay trail tablets for around the $100 price point (or less?). Can these still be bought? ------------------------- Intel to carry on subsidising tablets November 24, 2014 The attempt by Intel to penetrate the tablet market has cost it dear in subsidies over the last two years. But it appears that the chip giant hasn’t given up the ghost on such a plan and, according to Taiwanese wire Digitimes, is likely to pour more cash into the venture. Intel’s problem is that it has faced overwhelming competition on price from companies that use microprocessors from Mediatek and Qualcomm, based on designs from British chip designer ARM. Even though Intel has several ARM licences, it declines to use those to compete and wants the market to realise the important part it plays in the mobile arena. Or, to put it differently, Intel is a proud company and doesn’t want to lose face. The subsidies to vendors have been aimed at tablets with screen dimensions of 10 inches and below, but Digitimes now says it may well extend those subsidies to tablets 12 inches and below. Intel cannot afford not to be in the tablet business because it wants to be a key player in the so called Internet of Things. Last week the chip giant said it was going to merge its mobile and comms businesses with its PC business, which will effectively disguise the hole in its profit and loss statements in the future. http://channeleye.co.uk/intel-to-car...ising-tablets/ |
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Intel to carry on subsidising tablets
On 24/11/2014 10:47 PM, Intel Guy wrote:
I thought I had read where the tablets Intel was subsidizing were 8 inches and smaller. This article says it was 10 inches and smaller, but might change that now to 12". Which basically means all tablets (are there any that are larger?). I just recently found out that there were 7 or 8" bay trail tablets for around the $100 price point (or less?). Can these still be bought? Man, if I knew they could be bought so cheap, I probably would've gotten one. I did buy one cheap tablet (non-Intel), a Blackberry Playbook, because they had broken through the $200 barrier, if I waited a bit longer, I would've had it for less than $100. The thing with tablets though is that once you have one, there's really no incentive to upgrade, as all that you'd want a tablet to do never changes, year after year. Almost all of it is simply some form of websurfing, and a tablet from 5 years ago is still fine for that. There's no heavy-duty applications that require constant upgrades. Tablet sales are already biting the big one these days, the only people buying them are the ones that don't already have one. And there are fewer of those people day by day. Yousuf Khan |
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