
How Intel will bring a “good enough” tablet to the US market by Christmas—for less than $100
By Christopher Mims - Quartz
Intel and its partners are working on tablets so cheap they might even find a market in emerging economies. AP Photo/Kin Cheung
Intel is about to do something that would have seemed crazy under previous CEOs: the company will start competing at the lowest end of the microprocessor market. This is a company that built its reputation, and its manufacturing infrastructure—hugely expensive and unique among makers of microprocessors—on the back of high margins built into costly microchips intended for powerful PCs and servers. Now the shrinking PC market has forced Intel to attempt to create small,...