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We are the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. We develop advanced integrated digital technology products, primarily integrated circuits, for industries such as computing and communications. Integrated circuits are semiconductor chips etched with interconnected electronic switches. We also develop platforms, which we define as integrated suites of digital computing technologies that are designed and configured to work together to provide an optimized user computing solution compared to components that are used separately. Our goal is to be the preeminent provider of semiconductor chips and platforms for the worldwide digital economy.
Intel Corporation was incorporated in California in 1968 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1989.
Company Organization
At the end of 2009, we reorganized our business to better align our major product groups around the core competencies of Intel ® architecture and our manufacturing operations. After the reorganization, we have nine operating segments:
• PC Client Group. Delivering a high-quality computing and Internet experience through Intel architecture-based products and platforms, primarily for notebooks, netbooks, and desktops.
• Data Center Group. Delivering server, storage, and workstation platforms for small, medium, and large enterprises.
• Embedded and Communications Group. Delivering Intel architecture-based products as solutions for embedded applications through long life-cycle support, software and architectural scalability, and platform integration.
• Digital Home Group. Delivering Intel architecture-based products for next-generation consumer electronics devices with interactive Internet content and traditional broadcast programming.
• Ultra-Mobility Group. Building a business in the next-generation handheld market segment with low-power Intel architecture-based products.
• NAND Solutions Group. Delivering advanced NAND flash memory products for use in a variety of devices.
• Wind River Software Group. A wholly owned subsidiary delivering device software optimization products to the embedded and handheld market segments, serving a variety of hardware architectures.
• Software and Services Group. Delivering software products and services, in addition to promoting Intel architecture as the platform of choice for software development.
• Digital Health Group. Delivering technology-enabled products that are designed to reduce healthcare costs and connect people and information to improve patient care and safety.
Products
We design and manufacture computing and communications components, such as microprocessors, chipsets, motherboards, and wireless and wired connectivity products, as well as platforms that incorporate these components. We strive to optimize the overall performance improvements of our products by balancing increased performance capabilities with improved energy efficiency. Increased performance can include faster processing performance and other improved capabilities, such as multithreading and multitasking. Performance can also be improved through enhanced connectivity, storage, security, manageability, utilization, reliability, ease of use, and interoperability among devices. Improved energy efficiency is achieved by lowering power consumption in relation to performance capabilities, which may extend utilization time for battery-powered form factors and reduce system heat output, thereby providing power savings and reducing the total cost of ownership.
We offer products at various levels of integration, to allow our customers flexibility in creating computing and communications systems. The substantial majority of our revenue is from the sale of microprocessors and chipsets.