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Intel Wants PCs To Be More Than Just 'Personal Computers' (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the whatever-that-means dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report "What people need from a PC, what they expect is really more diverse than ever," Intel's Client Computing head Gregory Bryant said in an interview. "We're going to embark on a journey to transform the PC from a personal computer to a personal contribution platform... The platform where people focus and can do their most meaningful work." Bryant says Intel will focus on five key areas to reframe its vision of PCs: Uncompromised performance (of course); improved connectivity with 5G on the horizon; a dramatic increase in battery life; developing more adaptable platforms that go beyond 2-in-1s and convertibles; and a push towards more intelligent machines with AI and machine learning integration. Admittedly, many of those points aren't exactly new for Intel, and they also fall in line with where the computing industry is going.

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  1. uh by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What does the CPU maker have to do with all that?

    Just execute the instructions, thanks. Oh, and don't give things access to the memory that shouldn't have it. Thanks again.

  2. Still waiting on the phone "dock" to be ubiquitous by gravyface · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seems to make the most sense to me: phone + high-quality KVM experience = what 99% of the population wants.

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  3. Learn from Blackberry by mykepredko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From the headline & summary, I was immediately flashed back to my time at RIM where the company had exactly the same vision for Blackberries - the talking points are identical to what I heard at RIM. TFA goes into a bit of the technology required for the vision but, again, I could go back 8-10 years to RIM and see identical issues (connectivity, battery life, processors & software omnipotence) being discussed as requirements for the platform.

    RIM's failure to succeed was largely due to hubris and inattention to what was going on around them but I tend to think that there was a basic underpinning that there is NO single device that can do everything for everybody and trying to come up with the ultimate device, whether it is on a communications device (Blackberry) or a "personal contribution platform" isn't going to end where the proponents think it will.

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  4. But does it run Linux? by jfdavis668 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or is it going to be locked down to tight to load your own OS?