The PC’s past and Intel’s future
The leading purveyor of PC chips doesn’t really think a lot about the desktop anymore.
Is the desktop PC on the road to oblivion? Well, let’s put it this way: it’s hardly an Intel priority anymore.
Yeah, desktops will still be around in 2020, but it’s not something Intel — which makes most PC processors — thinks about a lot.
Shipment forecast of laptops, desktop PCs and tablets worldwide from 2010 to 2023 (in million units)
see: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-forecast-for-tablets-laptops-and-desktop-pcs/
Survival in the age of the big-screen smartphone and tablet is what Intel thinks about.
Read full Article by Brooke Crothers at CNET.com
