Atom is doing 'great'. Intel spend over $7 billion(1) subsidizing Atom in hopes chinese vendors would use it, they rarely did. Finally in 2015, partially driven

Atom is doing 'great'. Intel spend over $7 billion(1) subsidizing Atom in hopes chinese vendors would use it, they rarely did. Finally in 2015, partially driven by fear of prosecution for price dumping against native Chinese silicon manufacturers, they entered into a 'cooperation'(2) with gov run semiconductor giants, and by cooperation I mean Intel gave them 1.5B, free Atom license and committed to spend $5.5B on flash fabs in the mainland. Intel also also promised to shareholders they would stop subsidizing Atoms ... which didnt last that long (3). 1 http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/07/after-intel-spent-billions-to-subsidize-40m-android-atom-tablets-microsoft-releases-office-only-for-arm http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/07/after-intel-spent-... 2 http://www.cnet.com/news/intel-doubles-down-on-mobile-with-1-5-billion-china-investment/ http://www.cnet.com/news/intel-doubles-down-on-mobile-with-1... 3 http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-to-chinese-electronics-company-xiaomi-lets-make-a-deal/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-to-chinese-elec... Latest Atoms are almost usable, and you can get passable quad core 4GB ram/64GB flash tablet for $160 (Chuwi Hi10).