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Table of Contents
PART I
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Industry
We are the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. We develop advanced integrated digital technology
platforms and components, primarily integrated circuits, for the computing and communications industries. Integrated circuits
are semiconductor chips etched with interconnected electronic switches. Our goal is to be the preeminent provider of
semiconductor chips and platform solutions to the worldwide digital economy. We offer products at various levels of
integration, allowing our customers flexibility to create advanced computing and communications systems and products.
We believe that end users, original equipment manufacturers, third-party vendors, and service providers of computing and
communications systems and devices want platform products. We define a platform as a collection of technologies that are
designed to work together to provide a better end-user solution than if the ingredients were used separately. Our platforms
consist of various products based on: standards and initiatives; hardware and software that may include technologies such as
Hyper-Threading Technology (HT Technology), Intel
®
Virtualization Technology (Intel
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VT), and Intel
®
Active
Management Technology (Intel
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AMT); and services. In developing our platforms, we may include ingredients sold by other
companies.
Intel’s products include chips, boards, and other semiconductor products that are the building blocks integral to computers,
servers, handheld devices, and networking and communications products. Our component-level products consist of integrated
circuits used to process information, including microprocessors, chipsets, and flash memory.
We also believe that users of computing and communications systems and devices want improved overall performance
and/or improved energy-efficient performance. Improved overall performance can include faster processing performance and
other improved capabilities such as multithreading and multitasking. Performance can also be improved through enhanced
connectivity, security, manageability, utilization, reliability, ease of use, and interoperability among devices. Improved
energy-efficient performance involves balancing the addition of these types of improved performance factors with the power
consumption of the platform. Lower power consumption may reduce system heat output, thereby providing power savings,
and reducing the total cost of ownership for the end user.
Our customers include:
We were incorporated in California in 1968 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1989. Our Internet address is www.intel.com .
On this Web site, we publish voluntary reports, which are updated annually, outlining our performance with respect to
corporate responsibility, including environmental, health, and safety compliance (these voluntary reports are not incorporated
by reference into this Form 10-K). 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 U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC): our annual report on Form 10-K, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, our current reports on Form
8-K, our proxy statement related to our annual stockholders’ meeting, and any amendments to those reports or statements. All
such filings are available on our Investor Relations Web site free of charge. The content on any Web site referred to in this
Form 10-K is not incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K unless expressly noted.
Products
Our products currently include microprocessors; chipsets; motherboards; flash memory; wired and wireless connectivity
products; communications infrastructure components, including network processors; and products for networked storage.
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• original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) who make computer systems,
handheld devices, and telecommunications and networking communications equipment;
• 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 our networking, communications, and storage
products, through distributor, reseller, retail, and OEM channels throughout the world; and
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other manufacturers, including makers of a wide range of industrial and communications equipment.