Intel tried that in its own way. Galileo/Edison Quark based products, lasted 2 years and was pure shit. They entered Arduino hobby embedded world with microcont

Intel tried that in its own way. Galileo/Edison Quark based products, lasted 2 years and was pure shit. They entered Arduino hobby embedded world with microcontroller like x86 without dedicated fast IO (it could do something like 1KHz max) and no support/documentation. Intel version of giving it away was pricing slightly below? competition with similar spec (400MHz) while targeting 8bit 16MHz market :-) Nowadays only Chinese seem to be able to give it away to grow market share. $1 Espressif is a good example, Govin $7 GW1N-1 fpga devboards. Raspberry <$1 RP2040 is one western exception I could come up with.