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Three main reasons why Intel keeps losing money in mobile
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While I like Intel's capitalism. I think they should stay out of the mobile market. If they keep failing like this and loosing money, they should just stick to the CPU/CPU server market and make better products out of those.
I disagree, Intel has been bleeding out money in the mobile space the last few years, but it is quickly turning around. Moving from a $1B loss to a $200M loss in a single year is a huge improvement, and they are finding huge ways to reduce chip costs as the technology matures and they get much better yields per chip and they pay off their R&D costs. In another 2 years they should be in a position where it becomes a profitable business.While I like Intel's capitalism. I think they should stay out of the mobile market. If they keep failing like this and loosing money, they should just stick to the CPU/CPU server market and make better products out of those.
socket 1150 same generation i7/i5/i3/pentium/celeron all start out as the same basic identical chip, the i7. This is suppose to be not known by public, and is done so to keep costs down for producing chips, its easier and cheaper to produce one chip, then go from there, than create different special chips right from manufacturing.
They then destroy/blow fuses to limit the cpu's potential, bringing it down to i5/i3/pentiums and so forth.
They have been doing this forever, even when my father worked with intel, where he was testing/developing the max frequency on p3/p4s hooking it up to car coolant.
There use to be a huge problem back then of other small companies (mostly foreign companies) buying up huge quantities of cheapo celerons, and then fixing these fuses together to unlock it to what was fastest of its day, the pentiums, this would lead to of course stability issues. Its the same reason the little e, in Intel use to be dropped, to help find false relabeled pentium chips that were previously celeron chips.
Today, these falsified chips are much harder to produce for those small companies.
Im not sure on the exact process they do for producing atom chips, but im sure its very similar.
With the way tech is moving, the standing tower will be obsolete in ten years. The key to the future is going to be to create efficiently powerful mobile processors. I think Intel is just doomed if they stay with the notably inefficient x86 architecture. They'll have to innovate far harder, and more expensively, to keep the clunker engine race ready.
I'm personally looking forward to ditching the desktop. Goodbye Intel. Goodbye Microsoft. Two of the worst companies in computer history finally lumbering off into the tar pits.
The question is, why would anyone want these chips? Forget the fluff, the reality is, unless Intel essentially gives them away, no one is using them in tablets. AMD's Jaguar/Puma is better in laptops and desktops, so Intel has to price them low to make them attractive. So, there's no area they are better than competing solutions, so Intel has to compete entirely on price.
My little 100 dollar tablet has Intel terrified. And they should be.
x86 & Android doesnt work.
What intel need is to work with Microsoft to get x86 phones with windows. Even if microsoft is refuse to do it, Intel could still do those with a linux.
We need a desktop/laptop replacement phone with a "HDMI output. A mini productivity computer.
Not even laptops ???amd doesn't have any stake in mobile (i.e. smartphones, tablets etc not laptops).