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Intel Reaches For Ever Smaller Processors: Page 3 of 3

While Intel has to move quickly toward supporting future Internet-enabled devices, the PC will remain its biggest revenue generator for quite a while. Therefore, Intel is closely watching the condition of the PC market, which has been hammered in the economic recession.

Maloney said the company sees a huge amount of pent-up demand among businesses for replacement PCs. "There is a massive, massive number of 3-year-old and 4-year-old computers" in the U.S. and Western Europe, Maloney said.

With "hundreds of millions" of PCs waiting to be replaced, the PC market will recover quickly, as soon as businesses decide they can no longer delay purchases, Maloney said.