Intel CEO Paul Otellini has told the BBC that the PC industry is coming out of the recession. Otellini said that the the industry was likely to sell as many computers in 2009 as it had in 2008, which considering how bad the recession was, is a good result.

While analysts predicted a big fall in PC sales this year, but Otellini said consumers were still buying them because they were now "indispensable". If your PC breaks, he said, you cant wait for the end of the recession to replace it.

He added that when recessions end, people want the latest technology and they don't want the technology that existed when the recession started two years ago.(Or twenty years ago. sub.ed.)