Although the PC isn't disappearing anytime soon, it may as well be the deranged grandmother locked away within Intel's attic, whose faint screams are ignored in the rooms below. Indeed, Intel's newly minted chief executive, Brian Krzanich, didn't even mention notebooks, let alone the desktop PC, in his prepared remarks during INtel's recently quarterly earnings call. And the only mention he made of the personal computer was a mea culpa: "We were slow to respond to the ultramobile PC trend," he said, admitting that part of Intel's job was to scan for trends and react to them.