A lack of available touchscreens, which helped crimp early sales of Windows 8 notebooks, are now "completely gone," Intel executives said Wednesday.
Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president and general manager of the PC Client Group, was asked about touchscreens in a question-and-answer session at the Intel Developer Forum.
"Touch as a supply issue is completely gone," Skaugen said, crediting Michelle Johnston Holthaus, the vice president in charge of the PC Client Group, with leading the efforts to ensure panel suppliers had enough of the parts on hand.
In a brief interview, Holthaus agreed that the supply concerns had been completely eliminated, noting that the touchscreen providers had originally entered the market understandably conservative about their prospects. While Intel doesn't order touchscreens directly, the company still exudes a great deal of influence over the PC hardware market with reference designs and other initiatives to direct the PC's evolution.
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