China's Allwinner Outsold Intel, Qualcomm In Tablet Processors In 2012

An anonymous reader writes "ARM licensee Allwinner sold more application processors for tablet computers in 2012 than Intel and Qualcomm put together, according to this EE Times article that references market researcher Strategy Analytics. Overall one in five tablet processors was provided by a Chinese vendor in 2012, according to the article, partly because they sell chips at half the price of similarly specified chips from better known vendors."

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Re:This is called dumping

[Nyder]

This issue has been called into account by electronics manufactures in the western world against eastern manufacturers for decades. Basically, they are selling at or below cost to suck up market share. We (N. America) used to complain a lot louder about it until we started making all of our shit there too. However, popularity does not indicate quality. Just look at the millions of shitty pop records on the market now.

Yes, I can see how US Americans could get butthurt at selling stuff at or below cost to suck up market shares. I mean, no American Company would do that.

Oh, no sarcasm tags? Damn. Look, America has been doing the same shit. Look at video game consoles, Sony (They be Japan) and Microsoft (American) sold their consoles at losses.

In fact, Cell Phones are sold at losses providing you get a service plan with them.

I'm not going to google any more examples, but seems to me this is normal business practice.