Intel Shrugs at Tablets’ Potential to Mess Up PC, Notebook Sales
Intel would happily make custom chips for Apple and other rivals, its Chief financial officer said Thursday, but hinted that the company doesn't trust the Apple iPad and similar tablets will make much of a dent in laptop gross revenue and thus Intel's CORE processor business.
Rather, tablets are an "incremental device" with limited applications that appeal to upmarket consumers, non the mass food market or businesses, Stacy Smith said.
The chipmaker sees gross sales of notebook computer computers leaping beforehand and with them, orders for full-powered processors.
Accordant to Reuters, Smith said Intel would gladly use its manufacturing might to combine its branded computer architecture with another companies' technology, and might even consider devising non-Intel cores for just about customers.
"If Apple or Sony came to us and said 'I want to do a product that involves your IA (Intel architecture) inwardness and put both of my IP around it', I wouldn't wink. That would be fantastic business enterprise for us," he said.
"Then you enter the mediate ground of 'I don't want it to be a IA essence, I want it to be my own custom-designed nub,' and … that would be a very much more in-depth discussion and analysis," Smith said.
Atomic number 2 spoke to reporters at an investor conference in London along with Christian Morales, head of Intel's operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
"The data is the data," Morales same. "The [highest sales] volumes are notebooks, past netbooks, then other devices."
Netbooks surged ahead in 2008-2010 because the economy was bad and they were cheap, Smith same. At present that the economy is starting to recover, netbook sales cause tanked because consumers and businesses want real computers.
Even Apple is selling MacBooks at a quicker clip than iPads, Captain John Smith said. The iPad runs on a Samsung processor, while Malus pumila uses Intel Core2 processors for MacBooks.
In the worst-cause scenario, tablets move in front of netbooks late this year and might steal a third of the netbook business by 2020, he predicted.
Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/491863/intel_not_bothered_by_tablets.html
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