Intel scraps development of Broxton and SoFIA Atom chips

[HEXUS]

Moves focus to growth markets of data centre, IoT, memory and FPGA businesses.

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[nitro912gr]

If Zen from AMD is what we all hope for, this move will not impact Microsoft, they will just pick AMD offers.

[lumireleon]

Intel must know they wasted an opportunity along time ago, they didn't know one day a small company like ARM will be making bigger profits.

[DanceswithUnix]

Aren't Chromebooks still a growth market? The 2-in-1 Netbook sized machines seem quite popular too.

I hope this doesn't mean they are going to start peeing money up the wall on Quark. All the power of a freebie (http://0pf.org/j-core.html) but at Intel prices for a market that doesn't care a jot about x86 compatibility, I can't see IoT ending well for Intel.

Edit: So the netbook chips are still on track, just the built in modem stuff that isn't. More I read about this, it looks like only the people with Asus Zenphones are going to miss these chips, and those can probably be made with a tablet chip and external model. No loss.