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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF
OPERATIONS (Continued)
We make equity investments in companies around the world to further our strategic objectives and support our key business
initiatives, including investments through our Intel Capital program. We generally focus on investing in companies and
initiatives to stimulate growth in the digital economy, create new business opportunities for Intel, and expand global markets
for our products. The investments may support, among other things, Intel product initiatives, emerging trends in the
technology industry, or worldwide Internet deployment. We invest in companies that develop software, hardware, or services
supporting our technologies. Our current investment focus areas include helping to enable mobile wireless devices, advance
the digital home, provide access to premium digital content, enhance the digital enterprise, advance high-performance
communications infrastructures, and develop the next generation of silicon production technologies. Our focus areas tend to
develop and change over time due to rapid advancements in technology.
We plan to continue to cultivate new businesses and work with the computing, communications, and consumer electronics
industries through standards bodies, trade associations, OEMs, ODMs, and independent software and operating system
vendors, to encourage the industry to offer products that take advantage of the latest market trends and usage models. These
efforts include helping to expand the infrastructure for wireless connectivity, including wireless broadband. We also provide
development tools and support to help software developers create software applications and operating systems that take
advantage of our platforms. We frequently participate in industry initiatives designed to discuss and agree upon technical
specifications and other aspects of technologies that could be adopted as standards by standards-setting organizations. In
addition, we work collaboratively with other companies to protect digital content and the consumer.
Digital Enterprise Group
The Digital Enterprise Group (DEG) designs and delivers computing and communications platforms for businesses, service
providers, and consumers. DEG products are incorporated into desktop computers, enterprise computer servers, workstations,
and the infrastructure for the Internet. DEG platforms for businesses are designed to increase employee productivity and
reduce total cost of ownership. We develop these platforms based on our processors, chipsets, board-level products, wired
connectivity products, and products for network and server storage. The processors that DEG offers are designed for various
market segments, and include microprocessors that are optimized for use in the desktop and server computing market
segments; products designed for the communications infrastructure, including network processors and communications
boards; and products for the embedded market segment. End-
user products for the embedded market segment include products
such as industrial equipment, point-of-sale systems, panel PCs, automotive information/entertainment systems, and medical
equipment. Consumer desktop platforms that are designed and marketed specifically for the digital home are offered by the
Digital Home Group.
Our strategy for the desktop computing market segment is to introduce platforms with improved energy-
efficient performance,
tailored to the needs of different market segments. Our primary platform for business desktop PCs is the Intel vPro
technology-based platform. Platforms based on Intel vPro technology currently include the Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the
Intel Q965 Express Chipset, and the Intel 82566DM Gigabit Network Connection. For high-end desktop platforms, we offer
the Intel Core 2 Quad processor, the Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the Intel Pentium D processor, and the Intel Pentium 4
processor supporting HT Technology. For lower price-point desktop platforms, we offer the Intel Celeron D processor and the
Intel Celeron processor. We also offer chipsets designed and optimized for use in desktop platforms.
Our strategy for the enterprise computing market segment is to provide platforms that increase end-user value in the areas of
performance, energy efficiency, utilization, manageability, reliability, and security for entry-level to high-end servers and
workstations. Our Intel Xeon processor family of products supports a range of entry-level to high-end technical and
commercial computing applications. These products have been enhanced with Intel 64 architecture, our 64-bit extension
technology. Compared to our Intel Xeon processor family, our Intel Itanium processor family, which is based on Intel’s 64-bit
architecture and includes the Intel Itanium 2 processor, generally supports an even higher level of reliability and computing
performance for data processing, the handling of high transaction volumes, and other compute-intensive applications for
enterprise-class servers, as well as supercomputing solutions. We also offer chipsets, network controllers, direct-attached
storage I/O controllers, and RAID (redundant array of independent disks) solutions designed and optimized for use in both
server and workstation platforms.
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