HP chief throws about AI fairy dust in hopes of reviving slumbering PC giant

HP CEO Enrique Lores is betting a sprinkle of AI dust can regenerate the flagging PC market – and with shipments still in decline across the industry, he can't afford to tease Wall Street. The world's second largest seller of desktop computing hardware has reported a 15 percent year-on-year decline in revenue to $53.7 billion …

[Gene Cash]

"reported a 15% year-on-year decline in revenue"

For HP? Aw yeah, there's my Christmas gift right there.

Couldn't happen to a bigger bunch of a-holes... except maybe Oracle.

[NeilPost]

Re: "reported a 15% year-on-year decline in revenue"

Hey, maybe they could buy OpenAI. No due diligence required.

[MortyCapp]

You have asked analysts (that is to say suppliers of estimates and consulting to HP) for their comments.

That should be interesting.

And completely self serving.

[xyz123]

With the illegal crap HP got caught pulling on its firmware/UEFI, they're going to go on a mad "sales dash" to sell as much crap as they can before the share price tanks.

CEO will take a golden parachute and escape into the night like DB Cooper.

[Denarius]

AI on PC?

With Windows 11? An effective AI, (not that they exist) would spontaneous modify the OS to something like Win2000 UI, Linux kernel 2 or *BSD performance, run well in 2 GB RAM or less, take 1.5 GB on disk and refuse to run most web browser scripts. No hope. One hopes the BEOS clone rewrites and similar succeed.

<rant> I miss the resilience of HPs server firmware where I could do a cold backup of the entire OS and server disks without booting, the ease of use of the pre-CDE desktop, running servers with a few gig of RAM. I want a laptop that has a weeks run time of normal mixed office work use, a phone with a UI that only does what its told, no b*ed camera that appears when merely trying to unlock the damned thing, and no snooping on all of it. Yes, phone UIs seem to be made for small delicate fingers, not men. Looking at you Samsung mostly. </rant>

[PeterM42]

HP would do well........

.....to turn their printers back into PRINTERS (ie: a device for printing) instead of a personal details collection device.

I once got a client to return their HP "printer" as "not fit for purpose" for this reason.