Dallman made his announcement at the start of the Intel Solution Summit in Las Vegas, a three-day conference of more than 200 Intel Premier Providers.
In 2003, solution providers in Intel's Premier Provider program grew its desktop and server sales at double digital rates, and its sales of custom-built, unbranded notebooks at high double digit rates, Dallman said. In his conference speech, he told systems builders he expected significant growth in almost all of Intel's strategic areas, including servers and the digital home market.
"We want to see you guys building servers, including media servers for the home," Dallman said, addressing what he described as a more than $100 billion market opportunity in the growing digital home market.
"We're going to use 64-bit [computing] to drive the refresh cycle," Dallman said. He noted the company recently committed to begin shipping 32-bit Xeon processors with 64-bit extensions, a move that would ease the transition of software from one processing platform to the next.
"There are a lot of customers who now feel obsolete," Dallman told the audience. "That means we can go back in there and start upgrading these designs and selling them the right server at the right time at the right place."
