Intel Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells integrated circuits for computing and communications industries worldwide. The company also develops 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.
Products
The company offers products at various levels of integration, to allow its customers flexibility in creating computing and communications systems.
Components
Microprocessors
The company offers 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 company’s microprocessors can also include integrated memory controllers, which increase the speed of data transfer from cache and system memory.
During 2008, the company introduced a new microarchitecture based on its 45-nanometer (nm) Hi-k metal gate silicon process technology. The company also introduced the Intel Atom processor family. These low-power processors are specifically designed for embedded solutions, MIDs, consumer electronics, and two new classes of Internet-focused computers called netbooks and nettops.
Chipsets
The company offers chipsets designed for desktops, nettops, workstations, servers, embedded products, communications products, notebooks, netbooks, MIDs, and consumer electronics.
Motherboards
The company offers motherboard products designed for its desktop, workstation, and server platforms. The motherboard also has connectors for attaching devices to the bus, which is the subsystem that transfers data between various components of a computer.
Wired and Wireless Connectivity
The company offers wired and wireless connectivity products, including network adapters and embedded wireless cards, based on protocols used to translate and transmit data across networks. Wireless connectivity products based on WiFi technology allow users to wirelessly connect to high-speed local area networks, typically with in a close range. The company also has developed wireless connectivity products for both mobile and fixed networks based on WiMAX, a standards-based wireless technology providing high-speed broadband connectivity, which links users and networks up to many miles apart.
Platforms
The company offers platforms that incorporate various components and technologies. A platform typically includes a microprocessor, chipset, and enabling software, and may include additional hardware, services, and support. In developing its platforms, the company may include components made by other companies. The company refers to certain platform brands with in its product offerings as processor technologies.
Microprocessor and Platform Technologies
The company offers technologies that can help information technology managers diagnose, fix, and protect enabled systems that are plugged into a power source and connected to a network, even if a computer is turned off or has a failed hard drive or operating system.
Additional Product Offerings
NAND flash memory is a specialized type of memory component primarily used in memory cards, digital audio players, and system-level applications, such as solid-state drives used to store data and program code. NAND flash memory retains information even when the power is off, and provides faster access to data than traditional hard drives. Flash memory does not have any moving parts, unlike a device such as a rapidly spinning disk drive, allowing flash memory to be more tolerant of bumps and shocks.
Communications infrastructure products are the basic building blocks for modular communications platforms and include programmable processors used in networking equipment to rapidly manage and direct data moving across networks and the Internet.
Network and server storage products include small-business and home-network memory systems built for performance, security, and manageability. These products allow data storage resources to be added to either of the two most prevalent types of networking technology: Ethernet or Fibre Channel.
Software products primarily help enable the creation of applications with software development tools designed to complement its latest hardware technologies.
Digital Enterprise Group
The Digital Enterprise Group offers products that are incorporated into desktop and nettop computers, enterprise computing servers and workstations, a range of embedded applications, and other products that help make up the infrastructure for the Internet. DEG’s products include microprocessors and related chipsets and motherboards designed for the desktop and enterprise computing market segments; microprocessors and chipsets for embedded applications; components for communications infrastructure equipment, such as network processors; wired connectivity devices; and products for network and server storage.
Desktop Market Segment
The company’s desktop microprocessor offerings include the: Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition; Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor; Intel Core i7 processor; Intel Celeron Dual-Core processor; Intel Core2 Extreme processor; Intel Celeron processor; Intel Core2 Quad processor; Intel Atom processor; and Intel Core2 Duo processor.
The company offers desktop microprocessors at various price/performance points, from the Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition—a quad-core processor based on its latest generation Intel Core microarchitecture designed for processor-intensive tasks in demanding multitasking environments—to the Intel Celeron processor designed to provide value, quality, and reliability for basic computing needs. In addition, the company offers the Intel Atom processor designed for Internet-focused devices.
The company also offers processor technologies based on its microprocessors, chipsets, and motherboard products that are optimized for the desktop market segment. For business desktop PCs, the company offers the Intel Core2 Duo processor with vPro technology and the Intel Core2 Quad processor with vPro technology, which are designed to provide increased security and manageability, energy-efficient performance, and lower cost of ownership.
The company’s new product offerings in 2008 and early 2009 included: The Intel Core i7 processor family, including the Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition, based on its latest generation Intel Core microarchitecture, and designed for high-performance, power-efficient computing; Intel Atom processors designed for low-power and Internet-focused devices; Intel 4 Series Express Chipsets designed to be used with 45nm Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Core 2 Quad processors, helping to improve mainstream desktop system performance, energy efficiency, and video and sound quality; and Desktop motherboards that support a new generation of Intel vPro technology for business desktop PCs with enhanced manageability and security features.
Enterprise Market Segment
The company’s server and workstation microprocessor offerings include the Intel Xeon processor and the Intel Itanium processor. The company’s Intel Xeon processor family of products supports a range of entry-level to high-end technical and commercial computing applications such as IP data centers.
The company’s new product offerings in 2008 and early 2009 included: Low-voltage Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors based on its 45nm process technology; Intel Xeon processors designed to reduce the use of environmentally sensitive materials; Intel Xeon processors with up to six processing cores and 16 megabytes (MB) of shared cache memory. These processors are built using its 45nm process technology, and are designed for high-end servers with up to 16 processor sockets.
Embedded and Communications Market Segments
The company offers microprocessors and chipsets for embedded applications, and components—such as network processors—for communications infrastructure equipment.
The company’s new product offerings in 2008 and early 2009 included: Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors for embedded market segments, based on its 45nm process technology. These processors are designed for storage, router, security, medical, communications, and other high-performance, memory-intensive applications; Intel Atom processors designed for embedded applications such as in-vehicle information/entertainment systems, portable point-of-sale retail devices, and industrial robotics; and a new category of integrated, purpose-built System on Chip (SoC) products designed for embedded security, storage, communications, and industrial robotic applications. SoC products integrate core processing functionality with specific components, such as graphics, audio, and video, onto a single chip with reduced power consumption and size. These SoC products are based on Intel architecture.
Mobility Group
The Mobility Group offers various products, including microprocessors and related chipsets designed for the notebook and netbook market segments, wireless connectivity products, and energy-efficient products designed for the MID and ultra-mobile PC market segments. The company also offers Intel Centrino and Intel Centrino 2 processor technologies based on its microprocessors, chipsets, and wireless network connections.
The company's mobile microprocessor offerings include the: Intel Core2 Extreme mobile processor; Intel Celeron Dual-Core processor; Intel Core2 Quad mobile processor; Intel Celeron M processor; Intel Core2 Duo mobile processor; Intel Celeron processor; Intel Core2 Solo mobile processor; and Intel Atom processor.
The company offers mobile microprocessors for notebooks at various price/performance points, from the Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile processor designed for gaming to the Intel Celeron processor designed to provide value, quality, and reliability for basic computing needs. In addition, the company offers the Intel Atom processor designed for netbooks, MIDs, and ultra-mobile PCs. The company offers these processors in various packaging options, giving its customers flexibility for a range of system designs for notebook PCs and other mobile computing devices. The related chipsets for its mobile microprocessor offerings primarily include Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipsets and Mobile Intel 900 Series Express Chipsets.
The company's new product offerings in 2008 and early 2009 included: Intel Core 2 Quad mobile processors, designed to handle complex compute and visualization tasks on notebook workstations; Intel Centrino 2 processor technology and Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology, designed to deliver higher performance, longer battery life, faster wireless connectivity, and enhanced manageability and security capabilities compared to earlier versions of Intel Centrino processor technology. These platforms are based on new versions of Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processors; Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipsets designed to be used with 45nm Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Core 2 Quad mobile processors; and Intel Atom processors specifically designed for MIDs and netbooks.
Other Products
NAND Solutions Group
The company offers NAND flash memory products primarily used in memory cards and system-level applications, such as solid-state drives. The company’s solid-state drives, available in densities ranging from 1 gigabyte (GB) to 160 GB, are designed to enable faster boot times, lower power consumption, increase reliability, improve performance, and weigh less than standard hard disk drives. Components for its NAND flash memory products are manufactured by IM Flash Technologies, LLC (IMFT) using 34nm or 50nm process technology.
The company’s new product offerings in 2008 and early 2009 included: 80-GB and 160-GB solid-state drives based on NAND flash technology, designed for laptop and desktop computers; and 32-GB and 64-GB solid-state drives based on NAND flash technology, designed for use in servers, workstations, and storage systems.
Digital Home Group
The Digital Home Group offers products, including SoC designs, for use in consumer electronics devices designed to access and share Internet, broadcast, optical media, and personal content through various linked digital devices with in the home. In addition, the company offers components for consumer electronics devices such as digital TVs, high-definition media players, and set-top boxes, which receive, decode, and convert incoming data signals.
Digital Health Group
The Digital Health Group offers technology-enabled products for healthcare providers, as well as for use in personal healthcare. In 2008, the company introduced the Intel Health Guide, a personal health system designed to allow clinicians to remotely monitor and manage patients’ care through an online interface.
Customers
The company sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs). In addition, the company sells its products to other manufacturers, including makers of a range of industrial and communications equipment. The company’s customers also include PC and network communications products users who buy PC components and its other products through distributor, reseller, retail, and OEM channels throughout the world. The company’s worldwide reseller sales channel consists of indirect customers who are systems builders that purchase Intel microprocessors and other products from its distributors. The company's major customer during 2008 included Hewlett-Packard Company.
Competition
Microprocessors: The company's microprocessor competitors, such as Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; International Business Machines Corporation; Sony Corporation; Toshiba Corporation; ARM Limited; Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.; and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Chipsets: The company's chipsets compete with AMD, NVIDIA, Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation, and VIA.
Flash Memory: The company's NAND flash memory products compete with NOR and NAND products primarily manufactured by Hynix Semiconductor Inc., Micron, Numonyx, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SanDisk Corporation, Spansion Inc., and Toshiba.
Connectivity: The company's WiFi and WiMAX products compete with WiFi products manufactured by Atheros Communications, Inc., Broadcom, QUALCOMM, and other smaller companies.
Significant Events
On September 9, 2009, Informatica Corp. announced that it has partnered with Intel Corporation to embed Informatica B2B Data Transformation software as an integral part of the Intel SOA Expressway, a software appliance that uses industry standard technologies to simplify, accelerate and secure message based B2B and system to system solutions.
On September 11, 2009, Data Integration Software has partnered with Intel Corp. to embed Informatica B2B Data Transformation software as an integral part of the Intel SOA Expressway, a software appliance that uses technologies to simplify, accelerate and secure message based B2B and system to system solutions. The Informatica software enhances SOA Expressway with pre-built data transformation plug-ins for integrating and transforming data from legacy and proprietary formats to SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) and other payment networks, thus accelerating integration and messaging of financial industry information across disparate formats and systems.
In September 2009, Rasilient Systems Inc. has integrated Intel Corporation's Intel Modular Server built on Intel Multi-Flex Technology with its new RASILIENT PixelStor line of IPSAN storage product into a turnkey video surveillance solution.
In September 2009, TransGaming, Inc. announced a strategic collaboration with Intel Corporation to support TransGaming's on-demand gaming service, GameTree.tv. The GameTree.tv Service would deliver a on-demand gaming solution optimized for HD TV through the consumer electronics (CE) devices based on Intel CE Media Processors.
The company and NEC Corp. are jointly developing high performance computing (HPC) system technologies that would push the boundaries of supercomputing performance.
On November 22, 2009, The American University of Beirut (AUB) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Intel Corporation to join the Middle East Energy Efficiency Research Centre (MER) for developing more energy efficient solutions.
In November 2009, Enablence Technologies Inc. announced that it would be working with Intel Corporation and other industry companies to develop the latest in optical connection technology for personal computers (PCs).
On January 11, 2010, Microsoft Corporation announced an alliance with Intel Corporation to deliver a platform optimized for the digital signage industry. As a validated platform, the Windows 7-based Windows Embedded Standard 2011 operating system powered by 2010 IntelR Core micro architecture is optimized to address the retail and digital signage market's need for a solution.
On February 15, 2010, Intel Corporation and Nokia Corp. merge Moblin and Maemo to create MeeGo, a Linux-based software platform that wouod support multiple hardware architectures across the range of device segments, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.
History
Intel Corporation was incorporated in 1968. |
