Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartphone and tablet markets

Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by petra on Friday April 29, 2016 @10:38PM (#11600074)

So why haven't we seen the same story apply for the chromebook market(which btw is 10% of laptops) ? It has open and fair competition between Atoms and Arm's.

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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by pjmlp on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:49AM (#11600698)

10% of laptops where?

Beside the HN quotes that everyone in US is using them, I never saw a single person using a Chromebook in Europe.

Surely I see them on display in German stores, usually just one, being down priced every week until it finally sells. Take a couple of months and another one eventually shows up again on the same display spot.

On the street, trains, coffeshops, airports, never spotted one.

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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by hga on Saturday April 30, 2016 @06:58AM (#11601232)

They're said to have a big fraction of the US K-12 education market, where Chrome OS is a good fit, and they're cheaper than full service x86 laptops and much cheaper than Apple laptops.

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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by andrepd on Sunday May 01, 2016 @09:00AM (#11606005)

Sure, they're "said to". But is there a reliable figure somewhere about usage share of that segment?

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