Corporate Profile and Economic Impact

At Intel, we never stop looking for bold ideas—in technology, business, manufacturing, and corporate responsibility. We strive to ignite imaginations and enable positive change, making people’s lives better and more interesting. As the world leader in silicon innovation, we create products and technologies that have become essential parts of businesses, schools, and homes everywhere.

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Product leadership

With the introduction of innovations like our Intel® Core™ i7 processor family, we extended our position as a leader in both product performance and energy-efficiency.

Investing in innovation

While the global economic climate significantly impacted our fourth-quarter financial results, we generated $10.9 billion in cash from operations in 2008, enabling us to continue to invest in innovation, even during the economic downturn.

Number one ranking

Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine ranked Intel number one on its 100 Best Corporate Citizens list for 2008.

Our roadmap for technology leadership

We have established a roadmap for sustained technology leadership through our “tick-tock” strategy of introducing a new silicon process technology approximately every two years and ramping the next generation of microarchitecture in the intervening years.

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