Intel did made a very serious move on the low cost front, by letting TSMC sell SOC's with ATOM cores. that was really against the standard intel profit model ,

Intel did made a very serious move on the low cost front, by letting TSMC sell SOC's with ATOM cores. that was really against the standard intel profit model , but they knew they had to do it. The last i heard is that nobody(or maybe a single company), took them up on their offer. there could be many reasons for this : price, lack of trust of intel by hardware/SOC manufactureres, power consumption ,investments and experience in ARM development, the ability to reuse ARM based assets in many computer platforms(netbook, tablet, phone) Maybe intel's move was the right one , but just too late.like you said , the innovator's dilemma in action.