After losing Apple's iPad business, Intel has bled $7 billion while heavily subsidizing cheap x86 Atom Android tablets

After losing Apple's iPad business, Intel has bled $7 billion while heavily subsidizing cheap x86 Atom Android tablets: "Over the last two years, Intel's mobile chip division has lost $7 billion while heavily subsidizing the manufacturing costs of Android Atom tablet makers. It now plans to phase out those generous incentives, which will make it more expensive for iPad competitors to dump cheap tablets into the market. "

Obviously a market leader needs to strike a balance between leading and pricing. Unfortunately, the ARM SOC competition is at a whole different price point and if these low power chipmakers ever add x86 instructions, could spell trouble. 8086 __asm forever!