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other semiconductor components that are the building blocks integral to computers, servers, and networking and communications products. We
offer products at various levels of integration, allowing our customers flexibility to create advanced computing and communications systems.
Our component-level products consist of integrated circuits used to process information. Integrated circuits are silicon chips, known as
semiconductors, etched with interconnected electronic switches. Our developments in semiconductor design and manufacturing have made it
possible to decrease the size of circuits etched into silicon, permitting more transistors to be used on each individual chip. This decrease in circuit
size generally allows us to add additional features to our products and/or to make more chips from each silicon wafer, resulting in smaller and
faster microprocessors and other semiconductor products that consume less power and cost less to manufacture.
We were incorporated in California in 1968 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1989. Our Internet address is www.intel.com . On our
Investor Relations web site, located at www.intc.com
, we post the following filings as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically
filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission: our annual report on Form 10-K, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, our
current reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. All such filings on our Investor Relations web site are available free of charge.
Products
Our major products include microprocessors; chipsets; boards; flash memory; application processors used in cellular handsets and handheld
computing devices; cellular baseband chipsets; networking and communications products such as Ethernet connectivity products, optical
components and network processing components; and embedded control chips (microcontrollers).
Our major customers are:
• original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who make computer systems, cellular handsets and handheld computing devices,
telecommunications and networking communications equipment, and peripherals;
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PC and network communications products users (including individuals, large and small businesses, and service providers) who
buy PC components and board-level products, as well as Intel's networking and communications products through distributor,
reseller, retail, e-Business and OEM channels throughout the world; and
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other manufacturers, including makers of a wide range of industrial and communications equipment.
Focusing on our core competencies in the design and manufacture of integrated circuits, as well as our expertise in digital computing and
communications, we believe we are well positioned to drive the convergence of computing and communications through silicon integration. We
focus on developing advanced technology solutions tailored to meet user requirements in specific settings, providing the features people want in
their homes, at work and at play. We also provide key components for the networking and communications infrastructure needed to connect
technology users.
Each of our operating segments uses its core competencies, as well as key silicon architectures, to provide building blocks for technology
solutions. The Intel Architecture business provides the advanced technologies to support the desktop, mobile and enterprise platforms. The
Wireless Communications and Computing Group focuses on component-level products and solutions for the wireless handheld communications
market. Finally,
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the Intel Communications Group focuses on wired and wireless connectivity products, and provides key components for networking and
communications infrastructure devices.
Intel Architecture Business
The Intel Architecture business develops platform solutions around our microprocessors and chipsets for end products in the desktop,
mobile and server market segments.
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Desktop and mobile platforms incorporate our microprocessor and chipset products in desktop computers, notebooks, entry
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servers and workstations, and Internet appliances. Our strategy for the desktop platform is to introduce ever-higher performance
microprocessors and chipsets, tailored for the different market segments of the worldwide computing market, using a tiered
branding approach. For the mobile platform, our strategy is to deliver products optimized for the four mobility vectors:
performance, battery life, form factor and wireless capability.
• Enterprise platform products are targeted at mid-range to high-end servers and workstations, as well as high-performance
enterprise-class servers. Servers are powerful systems, often with multiple microprocessors working together, that house large
amounts of data, direct traffic, perform complex transactions and control central functions in local and wide area networks and on