Gone are the days when Intel would thrill the hardcore gaming community with the release of ridiculously muscular desktop platforms with bang-your-head code names like Skull Trail. Gamers, you see, have graduated from playing Crysis in their parents’ basements to sling-shotting Angry Birds on their parents’ family plans. The desktop? The desktop is dead. Or is it? Not according to Lisa Graff, vice president and general manager of intel’s Desktop Client Platforms Group, who on Wednesday detailed the chip giant’s plan to “reinvent the desktop” here at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco. Of course, it’s in Graff’s job description to evangelize desktop PCs even as many pundits declare them yesterday’s news. But the Intel exec actually has some compelling evidence that desktops are still a thriving category—it’s just that they mostly don’t look like we’re used to them looking anymore. Did you know, for example, that desktop products represented 47 percent of Intel’s client PC business last year by volume? And that Intel set its all-time record for Core i5 and i7 unit shipments in 2013? “Our desktop unit shipment volume is actually going up and revenue is going up even more. Desktop is still huge,” Graff said… Read full this story
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