Intel has recently cooperated with its PC brand partners including Micro-Star International (MSI), Asustek Computer, Acer, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell to jointly release products under its newly defined Creator PC sector, a segment targeting specifically CAD users.
Intel is optimistic about demand from the market and expects over user base from the new sector to have a potential to grow to at least over 200 million.
With more consumers using PCs to create social media content, growing business opportunities from gaming and entertainment VR content development and rising demand from advanced CAD users to create 4K and 8K content, a PC platform to satisfy demand for high performance computing is crucial.
PC products categorized under the Creator PC sector feature Intel's new Core X and H series processors and technologies to optimize data transmission and storage and help accurately display colors. These machines are also equipped with high-resolution and low-power consumption displays for design needs.
Intel has also formed partnerships with some major CAD users and software designers to ensure its Core processors and technologies are able to provide their users the best usage experience.
Currently, MSI is mainly pushing its Prestige series for the CAD sector and shipments of the series already account for around 15% of MSI's overall notebook shipments, an equivalent to over 150,000-200,000 units. The company is looking to raise the proportion to over 20% by the end of 2019 with further hardware-software integration and new designs that meet customers' demand.
Asustek at the moment is mainly promoting its ProArt series products including a monitor, a mini PC and two StudioBook S workstation notebook. Acer's CAD-oriented product line is its ConceptD series.
In addition to Intel, Nvidia also recently announced its Studio platform, integrating its GeForce RTX GPU with Nvidia Studio Stack. So far, 17 notebooks from Acer, Asustek, Dell, Gigabyte Technology, HP, MSI and Razer have adopted the platform with prices starting from US$1,599.
PC demand from CAD users is expected to pick up
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Article translated by Joseph Tsai
