Matt Ramsay, Canaccord Genuity
Fair enough. Brian as a follow-up: in the mobile group, obviously great work in hitting the target on the tablet units. Maybe you could talk a little bit about the market reception and the health of the channel for those products, particularly since a lot of those are Chinese OEMs with the set up for Chinese New Year on the tablet side? Thanks.
Brian Krzanich, Chief Executive Officer
Sure. Let’s see, I can tell you that the market reception in the channel so far for the Intel tablets has been very strong. There’s a strong brand value just in the Intel tied to a tablet, no matter who is the manufacturer. The tablets we’ve made with Lenovo and Dell, and many of the, I’ll call it, major OEMs, have been selling very well, and you saw the great reception, the Dell Venue 8 7000, for example, got at CES. I’ll call it the more broad products that are coming out of China, more of the Shenzhen marketplace, so far they’ve been selling quite well. The number, I’d say, the number of OEMs that are working with us in that space and the amount of innovation and breadth that they are bringing to these products has surpassed even what our expectations were. As we show them things like RealSense and WiDi and WiGig, all these capabilities both from the tablet and PC space, we are seeing a lot of innovation coming out of that Chinese market, Chinese manufacturer space.
Matt Ramsay, Canaccord Genuity
Thank you very much.
Stacy Smith, Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Matt. Operator, please go ahead and introduce our last questioner.
Operator
The final question comes from Vivek Arya from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Vivek Arya, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Thank you for taking my question. My first one, Brian how important is the recovery in emerging markets to maintaining your expectations for a flattish PC growth, and how are you balancing the push there in terms of the low cost tablets versus PCs?
Brian Krzanich, Chief Executive Officer
Sure, so if you remember, Vivek, what we said for the year is we would be roughly flat in units. We also forecasted a roughly similar worldwide economic or worldwide demand scenario is what we’re seeing today, so, we did not build in a big recovery or a big resurgence of the emerging markets into our 2015 model. So, we are not dependent on an emerging market recovery or return, in order to make our numbers for 2015.
The next question you asked is what about tablets, and the low end tablet, and I’d really say that it’s the low end tablet and the emergence of the phablet in that space versus the PC. We think that if I took a look at that, the phablet is probably taking a little bit more out of the tablet than the PC. I think people still are going to use the PC for their high-end usages, when they have to have a keyboard, when they have to have the higher end compute. For the low-end, kind of: I want to look at the material, I want to watch a video, I want to scan my data – the phablet and tablet are battling it out for the user in that space, I’d say. You see the large growth that’s occurring in phablets in the emerging markets. So bottom line, we are not expecting an emerging market recovery, we’re not building our forecast on that, and so, that’s why we’re feeling comfortable with our current PC forecast.
Vivek Arya, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
And just as a quick follow-up: you mentioned the ramp in discrete, LTE. I know you’ve done very well at Samsung, any more progress there, and just the broadly customer diversification on your LTE chip for this year? Thank you.
Brian Krzanich, Chief Executive Officer
Yes, we continue to win other customers. We don’t talk about customers until the products are launched, but we’re pretty comfortable with the design wins we’re getting. You see it, there’s some in Samsung, there’s some at Lenovo – you’ll see them coming into Rockchip and Spreadtrum in the second half of the year with their products, their SoFIA products, and there’re several others. We just aren’t going to talk about those, until they’re ready to announce the products.
Vivek Arya, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Thank you.
Stacy Smith, Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Vivek. Thank you all for joining us today. Jamie, please go ahead and wrap up the call.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude the conference for today. Again, thank you for your participation. You may all disconnect. Have a good day.
