Better Performance

Businesses that buy PCs with Intel's new Core vPro processors can expect a significant performance boost over their older devices.

The company said that the seventh-generation Core vPro processors will give desktops a 50 percent performance increase over five-year-old PCs.

Garrison said that in 2017, Intel expects to see more businesses look for new devices with better performance as they also upgrade their software to Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system.

"2017 will be important as more businesses will be transitioning from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and will also upgrade their hardware as they make that OS transition," he said.