Upside of the crisis—Chromebooks

Courtesy of Jodi Meyer   Google and its suppliers are beneficiaries of the Coronavirus crisis as schools all over the US buy Chromebooks for low-income families to enable homeschooling. In Marin, California alone,  1,500 Chromebooks were bought.  NYC with a school population of 1.2 million is said to have purchased 30k, and LA is buying 10k.  Aside from RAM and display suppliers, AMD and Intel are the principal suppliers of components. Qualcomm’s Windows-based system offered by Lenovo, HP, and others was designed to compete with Chromebooks but it hasn’t taken off and hasn’t gained any traction to speak of in