Intel needs to keep the PC market growing and has determined that the best way to do this is to connect more things to it. Obviously our intent is to move the whole computer business forward. The industry is betting that this will work. As the connected-PC vision takes hold, the CEA projects PC home penetration will rise to 63 percent by the end of this year. For Gates, it's equally self-serving.
Software defines that communication experience.
The vision is embraced by many of the retailers attending the Las Vegas show. There was some talk that we were in the post-PC world. But people are buying peripherals like handhelds and digital cameras and MP3 music players, and they do want all these devices to work together with the computer, so we see this movement increasing sales for everything. Curtis Sasaki is the director of Product Marketing for Sun Microsystem's consumer products. He shares the digital lifestyle dream but says too much is made of Gates and his view.