In the title folks, what the heck do you make of this news? Surely nothing good. News http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/120829-Intel-Strategy-Shuts-Out-PC-Enthusiasts.

Until anything is confirmed by Intel itself, I call this one a baseless rumor. The reason? It's just too stupid of a move.

http://technewspedia.com/confirms-that-future-intel-cpus-based-mainstream-skylake-will-broadwell-and-x86-socs/ a little bit more than a mere rumor to me.

I don't call some random exec from their Chinese branch confirmation.

This has been floating around in my feeds for a while now and I've ignored it for a few reasons:

1) It doesn't make sense. Why the hell would you design your hardware in a way that limits your market by not providing the very hardware that people need? A competitor will easily take that market away from them
2) There are no facts that have yet to present themselves, just people saying stuff
3) The low-power market is already dominated by ARM chips. This move would thus be suicide for Intel.