[PhantomGremlin]

Bingo. That's the money quote. If you hadn't posted it first, I was going to. They're spending/subsidizing nearly $22 for each $1 of revenue.

Intel is taking lessons from Microsoft in how to waste billions of dollars in futile endeavors.

[fpgeek]

It's not necessarily futile. If Intel can grab enough of a slice of the Android tablet market that developers of Android apps that use significant native code start caring about x86 Android... all sorts of opportunities open up for them.