The Change Mariner

PCs As Heart of Home Entertainment

New York Times:

This is not your grandma's PC," said Louis J. Burns, the executive in charge of Intel's desktop computer division.

The arrival of the more flexible personal computers, Silicon Valley executives argue, is aimed at permitting the industry to make big inroads into the consumer market as digital television replaces conventional analog TV, a move that is expected to lead Americans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars over the next few years on things like new big-screen displays and home-theater-in-a-box sets."It will define a whole new category," said Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, a maker of PC video cards also based here. "In five years it will absolutely reshape the consumer electronics industry."

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