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Is Intel Selling Bay Trail Chips Below Cost?

Posted by timothy on from the consumers-win dept.

edxwelch writes "An analyst at Bernstein Research has found that Intel is selling their tablet Bay Trail chips to OEMs below cost, concluding that after end rebates, Intel's tablet revenues are likely to be "close to zero," while profits will be negative. Intel has responded that the 'special costs' Intel is incurring are not pushing down gross margin. Intel needs to offer the subsidies to OEMs building $199-$299 devices to bring the bill of materials down and make them competive with cheaper chips from the likes of MediaTek and Rockchip."

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  1. Dice is selling out Slashdot with the Beta by east+coast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So what's the real difference here? The difference is that Intel is selling something of real world value. Dice is destroying something of real world value.

    --
    Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
  2. -1 ontopic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fuck Beta is the only thing to say today.

    1. Re:-1 ontopic by DaTrueDave · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I will be joining in the Slashcott from Feb 10-Feb 17. No on-topic replies today!

    2. Re:-1 ontopic by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You are NOT a paying customer

      Nope. As people are so fond of pointing out, we're the product. Since our displeasure with the new UX-infested abortion obviously, as you so correctly put it, "means squat to Dice," maybe having a bunch of "products" walking off the shelves and out of the store will get their attention.

      Can't speak for the others, but whether or not I walk back onto the shelves on the 18th depends on whether or not they manage to complete the cranio-rectal extraction or not.

  3. Dice has written off Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The editors are getting involved by modding down the "fuck beta stuff", but only this comment went from +5 to -1: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4760775&cid=46174399

    I think we have hit on what is really going on. Slashdot is being killed so that the brand can be re-purposed.

    1. Re:Dice has written off Slashdot by Belial6 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Sounds like the opportunity for a huge win for Commander Taco.

      1) Make Slashdot a popular site.
      2) Sell Slashdot for lots of money
      3) Wait for new owners to kill Slashdot
      4) Make new Slashdot site with different name
      5) Wait for everyone to switch to new site
      6) Sell new site for lots of money
      7) Profit!!!

  4. Re:FTC issue? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    SLASHBETA - A violation of human dignity.

    DOWN WITH BETA

  5. Regarding the fucking beta by gman003 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not a guy who blindly follows what he's used to. When I got Windows 8, I gave Metro a try. It has some good parts, and I don't even dislike the look of it. I could have adapted to the inconsistencies, and the weird tabletness of it all. But after trying dozens of apps, I found that none of them worked as well as the desktop applications.

    I like to think I'm a guy who does what works. Metro didn't work, so I no longer use it. I got a program that gives me a start menu back, and it lets me configure it to be even better-fitted to my needs than the stock W7 menu.

    I gave Slashdot Beta a try, because I thought it deserved a chance. Perhaps all the hate for it was just small-minded traditionalists clinging on to the familiar. But no. Slashdot Beta breaks all the important functionality, and it makes it look worse. If it goes live as it currently is, not only am I quitting Slashdot for good, but I'll be throwing a proposal to my bosses about making a competitor, because the market for an audience-focused tech site will be wide open (I'm currently contemplating "Alpha" as a name).

    Slashdot Classic has problems, certainly. Unicode is broken, HTML comments are stupid, the design isn't that great, and since the thing is still running on Perl I'm sure there's some hindrances to continued development. Slashdot needs a rewrite, a clean new technical foundation powering a new front-end design.

    But Beta isn't it. With all the problems Classic has, Beta is a million times worse. I can't think of even one way in which Beta is superior - it is a step down on all fronts, obviously designed by people who never used Slashdot and only copied from other news sites and comment forums.

  6. FUCK BETA by vivek7006 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    FUCK BETA. I want my classic back. And one more thing, FUCK BETA!