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Intel is slowly inching their way onto smaller devices (compute stick, 7" fanless tablets with TPM & TXT). While Google's Project Ara may look like a lab experiment, the Panasonic FZ-M1 is shipping with multiple peripheral "modules", so there's at least one proof point for modular devices with a radio.

If modular mobile architectures succeed, there will be a better chance of combining one's preferred hardware TCB with one's preferred sensors. Sometimes, it only takes one counterexample to move entire markets, look at the time interval between the first Galaxy Note and Apple iPhone 6.