CFO Intel: the company fully feel the drop in PC market
Manufacturer of Intel microprocessors fully feeling the drop in sales of desktop PCs, therefore forced to shift towards the development of tablets and other mobile devices. This broadcast BloombergTV said Intel CFO Stacy Smith. According to her, in the consumer computer fundamental shift is observed, which leads to a drop in demand for PCs that have dominated the industry in the last 30 years.
"If most people are now under the" computer "means a desktop PC or laptop, then after two or three years, this understanding will be shifted to tablets. Already, we are seeing growth in sales last fall, and the first," - she said. Smith says Now Intel is focusing its forces on creating chips for tablets upper price category, as well as laptops, convertible tablets.
At the same time, she added that while no plates, much less smartphones in principle not able to perform the wide range of tasks which, under the force of the PC, so in the foreseeable future sales of chips for PCs in any case will not go to zero. Recall that Today the PC business is still the largest for Intel, to him in the second quarter had $ 8.1 billion, which is 7.5% lower than a year earlier.
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