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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
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.
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 we update annually, outlining our performance with respect to corporate
responsibility, including environmental, health, and safety compliance.
We use our Investor Relations web site, www.intc.com, as a channel for routine distribution of important information,
including news releases, analyst presentations, and financial information. We post filings as soon as reasonably practicable
after they are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our
annual, quarterly, and current reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K; our proxy statements; and any amendments to those
reports or statements. All such postings and filings are available on our Investor Relations web site free of charge. In addition,
this web site allows investors and other interested persons to sign up to automatically receive e-mail alerts when we post news
releases and financial information on our web site. The SEC also maintains a web site, www.sec.gov, that contains reports,
proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. 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
We strive to design and manufacture computing and communications components and platforms with improved overall
performance and/or
improved energy efficiency. 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, storage, security, manageability, utilization, reliability, ease of use, and interoperability among devices.
Improved energy-efficient performance is achieved by balancing performance factors with lower power consumption. Lower
power consumption 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.
Components
Microprocessors
A microprocessor—the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer system—
processes system data and controls other devices
in the system, acting as the “brains” of the computer. We offer microprocessors with one or multiple processor cores designed
for desktops, nettops, workstations, servers, embedded products, communications products, notebooks, netbooks, mobile
Internet devices (MIDs), and consumer electronics. The following are characteristics of our microprocessors:
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• Multi-core microprocessors contain two or more processor cores, which can enable improved multitasking and energy-
efficient performance by distributing computing tasks across multiple cores.
• Cache is a memory that can be located directly on the microprocessor, permitting quicker access to frequently used
data and instructions. Incorporating additional amounts
and/or
levels of cache can enable higher performance.
• Our microprocessors can also include integrated memory controllers, which increase the speed of data transfer from
cache and system memory.