PC Market Showing Signs It’s ‘Beginning To Stabilize,’ Says Intel CEO
Despite “ongoing macroeconomic headwinds,” the PC market is showing signs that it’s “beginning to stabilize,” Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said on an earnings call. “We continue to benefit from a strategy designed to capitalize on the growing need for the…
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infrastructure that powers the smart and connected world.” Q3 saw the release both of Windows 10 and of Intel’s sixth-generation core processor platform formerly known as Skylake, Krzanich said Tuesday. “Our partners in the industry are using this combination to drive an unprecedented innovation, creating a new generation of high performance enthusiast desktops and thinner, lighter and more versatile 2-in-1s.” Intel now has more than 50 models of devices on its sixth-generation platform “available and shipping now, and we expect to more than triple that number by the end of 2015,” he said. The combined introduction of Windows 10 and Skylake gives the PC industry “a good point for optimism,” Krzanich said during Q&A. “That said, some of these transitions are going to take some time, and so I am very cautious of people to say how fast and when,” he said. “So I do see that this is a great opportunity, and that we should see some tailwinds pushing us into the PC market. But it's going to be over time.”