A platform is a set of components and services designed to work together to deliver greater customer benefits than the sum of the individual parts. Each platform typically includes features and capabilities you might otherwise have to purchase or create on your own.

What do platforms mean for you and business?
Intel® Desktop Platforms may open new markets for you, helping you grow your business and offer new services without having to add additional staff.

• Expand your market and profit opportunities. Intel® products-based platforms for the digital home could allow you to break into the fast-growing digital home market and a customer segment you may not yet be serving-consumers. Platforms for the digital office help you approach prospects with new offerings such as enhanced desktop management services for additional revenue.
  
  
• Be more competitive. Offer a one-stop shopping experience for hardware, software, and services from Intel and third-party solution vendors. Building platforms based on Intel products can mean less integration effort for you, reduced labor and inventory costs and faster time to market.
  
  
• Help customers do more. Your Intel processor-based PCs for the digital home help consumers do more, with new features that allow them to work more, play more, and do it all with more flexibility and security. For the digital office market, your Intel® processor-based business PCs can help businesses be more responsive, lower management costs and protect business information.