PC makers prepare for convergence
The PC is changing. Once simply a computer with spreadsheets for the family budget and games for the kids, home PCs are rapidly evolving into home entertainment systems, equipped with digital television tuners, high-definition displays, and other features drawn from consumer electronics.
Globally, media PCs represent a fraction — just 5 percent — of desktop computer sales, said Eric Kim, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Home Group, during a speech at the Ceatec exhibition in Chiba, Japan. While media PC sales are relatively small at present, they will represent 30 percent of desktop sales by 2008, he said. While the rest of the world slowly warms to media PCs, the systems already dominate computer sales in Japan. “More than 60 percent of desktops sold in Japan today are already some kind of media PC,” he said.
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