作者weiter5494

And the more important thing is there will be a lot of shifting of investment. Intel will be making significant new investments in data center, and tablets and low-power SOC and the internet of things.

Intel正評估是否在2015年退出智機SoC市場，萬一今年自家業務仍無顯著起色。

2013年藉與Lenovo合作智機以拓展市場，最終後者無意協同Intel再戰。2014年，Intel找上Asus接棒，強攻低價機種。搭配32nm的Clover Trail+晶片，Zenfone系列三月上架已是板上釘釘。

In February, Intel will announce its next-generation Merrifield-based 22nm smartphone processor, the dual-core Atom SoC (2.13GHz) at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014. The platform will feature the XMM 7160 LTE solution and NXP's PN547 NFC solution, and is set to start shipping at the end of March.

若Intel真在明年退出智機市場，22nm的雙核Merrifield很可能就是末代產品，後續的四核Moorefield跟整合型SoFIA自然無疾而終。

Intel has internally started evaluating whether to stop spending resources on its handset business recently as the business has not seen any significant improvements in the past few years.

Asus力挺Intel，今年出貨量上看500~1000萬支，其下場會是替Intel清庫存的祭品嗎？

PS：之前的法說會上，Intel幾乎未提智機晶片，反倒是平板晶片還有著墨。是否透露隨著PC市場回溫，Intel採取防守策略，穩固PC市場（平板視為PC延伸）為重，斷智機以止血？