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Intel Wants Out of the PC Business

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Intel appears to want out of the industry that made its fortune-- the company's latest 10-Q filing shows PCs no longer have a place in the Intel vision chart, being thrown under the "Things & Devices" umbrella.

Intel cycleSuch a move might not come as so much of a surprise, seeing how the PC industry is currently all about woes related to sales declines. And since it failed to capitalise on the success of mobile devices (another product category currently going through less than stellar fortunes, mind), Chipzilla appears to be shifting attentions wholly towards datacentres and the myriad things making the Internet of Things.

"As more 'things and devices' become smart and connected to the cloud, there is greater demand for data centers to not only connect these devices, but also to capture and analyze the data they create," the filing reads.

The focus on the chips powering both datacentres and connected devices makes a lot of sense-- the company wants to create the "virtuous cycle of growth" seen in the diagram, where datacentres feed data to connected devices, which in turn feed data back to datacentres for processing.

Of course, PCs are also connected to the internet, but are ultimately just a fraction of a mega-category covering anything from smartphones and tablets to wearables and sensors employed in just about any environment one can think of.

Go Intel 10-Q Quarterly Report