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Intel biggest inroads in SoC market happened when it was giving away Atoms below cost ($5, Mediatek/Rockchip price point) while losing $3-4 Billion. Year after
by rasz_pl 11y ago
Intel biggest inroads in SoC market happened when it was giving away Atoms below cost ($5, Mediatek/Rockchip price point) while losing $3-4 Billion. Year after year since 2013.
Their plan for 2016 is selling LTE modems below cost to Apple.
- digi_owl 11y agoI was wondering why every darn Android tablet seemed to be using Atom, if they didn't use their own SoC or one of the big names.
- petra 11y agoHow is it even legal ?
- trynumber9 11y agoIf Intel wants to lose a few billion dollars while gaining almost no market share, why shouldn't it be legal? It was a massive failure all around, with basically only low-end tablets and some Asus phones using Intel's fire-sale chips. Had it succeeded I'm sure we could have seen some lawsuits but it didn't so we don't.
- rasz_pl 11y agoIts totally cool. Learning from Qualcomm experience (milking Chinese companies for IP resulted in $1B penalty hehe) Intel "partnered" with Rockchip and Spreadtrum (read: was forced by Chinese regulators to give away its Atom IP to Rockchip) and "invested" in a bunch of companies, not to mention will spend almost $6B building a fab there.