Intel's tablet adventure looking like its netbook disaster
Intel's rise and fall in tablets are starting to resemble the company's misadventures in netbooks less than a decade ago.
The company is quickly distancing itself from basic tablets, a market it prized as little as two years ago, to go after detachable devices, hybrids, and high-end tablets that can double as PCs.
Intel could also ax some Atom tablet chip lines that brought the company success two years ago. Intel this week laid off 12,000 people as part of a restructuring plan that could also include cuts in some product lines.
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