Intel Quark / Curie vs PIC32, ARM etc...

[tszaboo]

While back a company decided to build a board based on the AMD Geode, because it was new and stuff. The Geode became obsolete before the board design was finished.
I would never touch Intel, AMD, or the newcomer Samsung, for embedded system, for any serious business.

That's why they build SOMs for you.
There are very high quality third party SOMs for Snapdragon, Samsung has their own Exynos IoT platform, even secretive MTK now released an IoT board.
Intel has been recently actively participating IoT SOM business. They have low end Curie, mid range Edison and high end Aero and Joule.
Broadcom has RPi zero and RPi stick, while there is an Isreal company making Xilinx/Altera SOMs. Even nVidia has Jetson.

None if the boards mentioned above is not a PCB layout nightmare, but the SOMs did the job for you.

So the SOM can go out of production before you can do anything. No thanks.
If Toradex or any reputable manufacturer, with compatible boards and operating systems will make a board based on it, maybe.

[senso]

Aldebaran Nao robots used the Geodes, so maybe they snagged them all?
I remember playing with them when I was in the University..