Intel reports it has lost a third of its revenue
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Big changes ahead for the Linux desktop market.
No one wants intel products any more. Its all turning into Linux on ARM products. Even a simple company like Allwinner now sells more chips than Intel. And there are dozens and dozens of such companies and dozens more starting up to fill every niche.
The ascent of ARM and Linux is driven by Linux and its availability on ARM chips. Companies that don't support Linux on ARM fail despite being same as anybody else when they start out. What propels them forward in the corporate world is now the inclusion of solid Linux support for their chips at every level from the moment the chip is conceived, to sample stage, to final product release stage.
Slacking even a little bit with Linux support delays adoption and allows competitors to get ahead as many slackers have found out the hard way.
The largest area where MBA trolls and slackers operate now is the graphics controller chip when they license it to fit it in an ARM chip. As NVidia found out, their name means nothing if 100% Linux support is being driven by slackers. Chips will NOT sell if Linux is not there to support the graphics controllers, and if MBA trolls are in there saying all kinds of hoo haaaa about Linux and full support, it is far better to kick them off the premises than it is to go with grpahics IP trolls and loose the entire chip as no one will buy chips without proper Linux support, and those companies that do not offer FULL Linux support INCLUDING GRAPHICS controller are now destined to fail.
Heed the warnings. If Intel can fail, then smaller chip companies that do not offer full Linux support including graphics controller will fail soonest and it will be quick.