QUALCOMM, Inc. (QCOM), NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA), Intel Corporation (INTC): What About Pricing?

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What’s the bottom line?

While Intel is certainly late in providing a leadership tablet platform, it is certainly making a rather spectacular entrance after priming the pump with last year’s tablet chips. The hardware is there, the software is there, and the OEM partners are ready to hit the market with some truly compelling designs. The Windows market — whatever it may be — seems as though it will be sewn up cleanly by Intel.

On the other hand, the Android market is an entirely different ball game. While on Windows, Intel has a very clear set of advantages (compatibility with everything that’s Windows-based). However, such advantages do not exist in the Android world, which is largely instruction set agnostic. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) will be putting up fierce fights in the Android world, but for the first time in this space, Intel has a truly competitive, best-in-class solution that seems poised to gain market share.

The article Intel’s New Tablet Chip Sets the Stage for Gains originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Ashraf Eassa.

Ashraf Eassa owns shares of Intel and NVIDIA. The Motley Fool recommends Intel and NVIDIA. The Motley Fool owns shares of Intel and Qualcomm.

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