Standards & initiatives

Whether it’s calling home on a cell phone or loading a new game on to a PC, our personal lives and global infrastructure rely on the stability and consistent performance of hardware and software. Intel invests significant resources in collaborating with organizations around the world to establish and maintain high standards for the technology that touches our lives.

Standards/industry groups  ›

Intel pursues the latest technological advances by working with more than 100 standards and industry groups worldwide.

• Computing and consumer electronics platform standards
• Standards/industry groups
• Networking & telecommunications standards
• Silicon & semiconductor standards
• Software & web standards
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Case studies  ›

Intel pioneers innovation in the digital world by forming, leading and contributing to a wide range of standards and specification-development organizations. Learn about the exciting issues we’re working on now.

• The digital home
• Protection of digital transmission
• Ethernet standards
• Standard IEEE 802.11
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Executive interviews  ›

Our executives are leaders in their field. Read their views on how standards play a key role in the computing, communications and consumer electronics industries.

• Read executive interviews
• Bruce Sewell: intellectual property in standards
• Craig Barrett: the importance of global standards
• Pat Gelsinger: global standards and spectrum policy reform
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Patent-licensing practices  ›

Learn about our patent-licensing practices for industry specifications and standards.

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Initiatives  ›

From broadband wireless delivery to industry-standard specifications, find out how Intel initiatives offer the right solutions at the right time.

• Advanced switching interconnect
• Intel developer network for PCI Express* architecture
• Modular communications platform
• Serial ATA
• Universal Serial Bus (USB)
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