Intel Corporation has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) for the tenth straight year, a recognition it has received every year since the Indexes were created. The DJSI reviews and highlights a company's economic, environmental and social performance, assessing issues such as corporate governance, risk management, branding, climate change, supply chain standards and labor practices.

Intel was also named, for the eighth consecutive year, the Supersector Leader for Technology - the only U.S.-based company named to the list of 19 Supersector Leaders. The Technology Supersector encompasses companies in software, computer services, Internet, communications, semiconductors, hardware and office equipment. We also had sector-leading scores in the main economic and social categories.

Intel received sector-leading scores in a number of criteria including environmental reporting, human capital development, corporate citizenship/philanthropy, corporate governance, code of conduct and stakeholder engagement.

Launched in 1999, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are the first global indices tracking the financial performance of leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide.

For more information on recent CSR awards and recognitions, please visit: http://www.intel.com/intel/corpresponsibility/awards.htm

For more information on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, please visit: http://www.sustainability-indexes.com/07_htmle/reviews/review2008.html

Intel Corporation took the No. 1 spot in this year’s "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list, published by Corporate Responsibility Officer (CRO) Magazine. Intel has been included in the top 20 on the list since its inception nine years ago and is one of only three companies to appear on the list every year.

The 100 Best 2008 list, announced on February 20, identifies companies that best combine business objectives with responsible practices across eight categories: environment, climate change, human rights, employee relations, corporate governance, lobbying, philanthropy and financial performance. Intel ranked in the top 50 in five of the eight categories, scoring its best mark in the environment category (which measures environmental disclosures, policies and performance.)

Rankings are based on research and analysis by IW Financial using only publicly available sources to encourage transparency in corporate responsibility reporting. Companies are drawn predominantly from the Russell 1000 Index.

"At Intel, we define success not only by our business performance, but how we transform the world in which we live and work. We invest a great deal of effort and resources toward corporate responsibility and have high expectations for ethical conduct in all parts of our business," said Will Swope, vice president and general manager, Intel Corporate Affairs Group.

"Getting named to the top spot means a lot to our company," said Dave Stangis, Intel’s Director of Corporate Responsibility. "Our position on the list over the years has had a significant impact internally as we have reviewed the category scores to find areas where we can improve. And we’ll be digging through this year’s ranking again this year to find more opportunities."

More details regarding the 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008 list are available on the CRO Web site at http://www.thecro.com/node/615

Intel Corporation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on January 28th that Intel has become the single largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy certificates in the U.S.

At Intel, we’ve made energy conservation and support for renewable energy a top priority, and we’re proud to be part of the EPA’s Green Power Partner program. Our purchase of renewable energy certificates (RECs) amounts to 1.3 billion kilowatt hours of energy a year. The EPA estimates this has the equivalent effect of eliminating CO2 emissions for more than 185,000 automobiles or the electricity needed to power more than 130,000 average American homes annually.

This purchase places Intel at the top of EPA's Green Power Partnership National Top 25 list, as well as the top of the Fortune 500 Green Power Purchasers list. The Green Power Partnership program encourages voluntary green power purchases to reduce the impact of conventional electricity use.

Intel’s purchase, which includes a portfolio of wind, solar, small hydro–electric, and biomass sources, will be handled by Sterling Planet, a leading national supplier of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and low–carbon solutions. The purchase will be certified by the non–profit Center for Resource Solutions' Green–e® program, which is a nonprofit organization that certifies and verifies green power products.

At Intel, our effort to support renewable energy is only part of an overall approach that includes comprehensive energy conservation programs in our factories and operations. By purchasing renewable certificates, we're helping to stimulate the market for renewable energy, which should lead to additional generating capacity and ultimately lower costs for green power.

To learn more about Intel’s environmental commitment, please visit: www.intel.com/intel/environment

For the fourth year in a row (and since the list’s inception), Intel has been named to the list of the 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World. Announced each year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the list is produced by Corporate Knights Inc. and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors Inc., a leading research firm specializing in analyzing environmental, social, and governance issues and the impact of these factors on corporate financial performance.

Companies are selected based on Innovest’s research on over 1,800 companies and membership in the MSCI and evaluated according to their relative performance to their sector peers.

The 2008 list includes companies from 17 different countries across a range of industries. Intel is one of only 16 U.S. companies included in this year's list.

"We're honored to again be included on this list of world leaders in sustainability," said Dave Stangis, Intel’s Director of Corporate Responsibility. "We continue to invest a great deal of time and resources to integrate sustainability and expectations for ethical conduct into all parts of our business — this recognition is a testament to the ongoing work and commitment of our employees worldwide."

For more information on the award and to view the full list, visit http://www.global100.org/

CRO (Corporate Responsibility Officer) Magazine placed Intel at the top of their "CRO’s 10 Best Corporate Citizens by Industry 2007" in the technology hardware sector list, announced on December 12. Intel shared first place on the list with Cisco.

"CRO's 10 Best Corporate Citizens by Industry 2007" expands upon CRO's annual "100 Best Corporate Citizens," which will appear in CRO's January—February 2008 issue. Explaining the rational behind creating the new 'CRO's 10 Best' lists in addition to the '100 Best Corporate Citizens,' CRO Magazine noted that comparing peer companies can be a better gauge of performance. "We saw this exercise as a valuable way to decipher companies’ performance on things like governance and sustainability issues, especially when looking at how they did when measured against the companies they duke it out with in the marketplace," said CRO Editor–In–Chief Dennis Schaal.

"Corporate responsibility is in our DNA at Intel. It’s how we conduct our business," said Dave Stangis, Intel director of corporate responsibility. "We are honored to be recognized by people that make a business of defining benchmarks in CSR. The fact that our values of respecting individuals, communities and the planet are recognized in this way is a testament to the good work of Intel employees worldwide."

To formulate the industry lists, CRO contracted with IW Financial, a Portland, Maine–based research firm specializing in environmental, social and governance issues, to analyze the citizenship efforts of large–cap, publicly traded companies in almost a dozen sectors. CRO and IW Financial evaluated the most influential U.S. public companies, drawn predominantly from the Russell 1000 Index, through the lens of eight categories: Environment, Climate Change, Human Rights, Employee Relations, Corporate Governance, Lobbying, Philanthropy and Financial. The research for the different categories was robust, including 170 different data elements drawn from publicly available information. Category rankings were then averaged to determine the "CRO's 10 Best" companies for each industry. For more about the CRO list, visit http://www.thecro.com.

Dave Stangis — Intel CSR director for the past 8 years — was also recently named as one of the most influential people in business ethics by Ethisphere Magazine, a global publication focused on the correlation between ethics and profit. A panel of ethics experts from major universities submitted nominations and ranked individuals who influenced ethical behavior in global business. The 100 most influential individuals were indexed against the following nine categories: business leadership, corporate culture, design and sustainability, government and regulatory, investment and research, legal and governance, media and whistleblowers, non–governmental organizations (NGO), and thought leadership. The complete list of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics is available online at http://ethisphere.com/influential/

Intel Corporation announced in September, the launch of an open source community project designed to meet the growing demands for increased energy efficiency across the computing spectrum spanning servers in data centers to personal mobile devices.

Unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum, the LessWatts.org initiative brings together key stakeholders to facilitate technology development, deployment and tuning and sharing of information around Linux power management.

For large data centers, server power consumption imposes limits on a center's growth and has significant financial and environmental costs. In addition to the large data center customers, mobile users are also constrained by power consumption limits as battery space is continually squeezed with the overall reduction in size of mobile devices. In both the server and the mobile markets, Linux operating systems continue to grow in relevance and market segment share.

"We created LessWatts.org to accelerate technology development and simplify information sharing for effective power management across a broad spectrum of devices and industry segments that are utilizing Linux," said Renee James, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel's Software and Solutions Group. "A focused initiative that aggregates the disparate efforts into a holistic system and builds on our existing efforts with the industry in the Climate Savers Computing Initiative will serve as a strong catalyst to get energy-efficient solutions into the market segment faster, thereby benefiting the customers who purchase Intel-based products."

More information is available at www.lesswatts.org.

Intel Corporation and Google joined with Dell, EDS, the Environmental Protection Agency, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, Pacific Gas and Electric, World Wildlife Fund, and more than a dozen additional organizations announcing their intent to form the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. The goal of the new broad-based environmental effort is to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by setting aggressive new targets for energy-efficient computers and components, and promoting the adoption of energy-efficient computers and power management tools worldwide.

“Today, the average desktop PC wastes nearly half of its power, and the average server wastes one-third of its power,” said Urs Holzle, senior vice president, Operations, Google Inc. “The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is setting a new 90 percent efficiency target for power supplies, which if achieved, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 54 million tons per year -- and save more than $5.5 billion in energy costs.

“We are asking businesses and individuals throughout the world to join with us to institute better power management of their computing equipment and purchase energy-efficient computers,” Holzle added.

Initial companies who intend to participate in the initiative represent both the demand and supply side of the computer industry, including computer manufacturers and chip makers, as well as environmental groups, energy companies, retailers, government agencies and more.

“By 2010, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative will cut greenhouse gas emissions in an amount equal to removing more than 11 million cars from the road or shutting down 20 500-megawatt coal-fired power plants -- a significant step in reducing the emissions affecting our planet,” said Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group.

The Foreign Policy Association (FPA) presented Intel Corporation with its annual Corporate Social Responsibility Award, citing the company's demonstrated commitment to education, community development and sustainable environmental practices.

"Nearly 40 years ago, our founders established a culture that recognized the need for corporate responsibility," said Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini. "We believe that global competition demands that we demonstrate not only excellence, but integrity, trust and social responsibility. On behalf of all of my colleagues at Intel, I am proud to accept this award and the honor it brings our company."

Founded in 1918, the FPA is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving as a catalyst for developing awareness, understanding and informed opinion on U.S. foreign policy and global issues. Noel Lateef, FPA president and CEO, has hailed the award as "the highest recognition that the Association confers for good corporate citizenship."

More information about Intel's commitment to corporate responsibility is available in the recently published 2006 Corporate Responsibility report, which can be found at www.intel.com/go/responsibility.

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live.

Jim Jarrett, (left) Intel Vice President accepts the Corporate Stewardship Award from Chamber of Commerce President, Thomas J. Donohue

Honor Recognizes Intel's Commitment to Economic, Community, Social Progress.

Intel Corporation received the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center's annual Corporate Stewardship Award, recognizing the highest ideals of corporate stewardship as evidenced by the integration of company performance with a decades-long commitment to education, community development and sustainable environmental practices.

The Business Civic Leadership Council's Corporate Stewardship Award is presented annually to a business that demonstrates ethical leadership and corporate stewardship, makes a difference in the communities in which it operates and significantly contributes to the advancement of economic and social goals. Winners are chosen by a panel of independent judges, including Harvard University professor Michael Porter, former Commerce Secretary Don Evans and several prominent business leaders.

"Intel's outstanding commitment to education, community, and the environment is worthy of recognition," said BCLC Executive Director Stephen Jordan. "The company is living proof that a business can succeed while helping to conserve our natural resources for generations to come."

"At Intel, we define success not only by our business performance, but also by how we transform the world in which we live and work. We are honored to be recognized for the positive impact we have had in communities around the world," said Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini.

Pictured (l-r) are Geoffrey O'Byrne Whyte, Chief Executive, Cityjet; Minister of State Noel Ahern T.D.; Trevor Holmes, Intel; and Robin O'Sullivan, President, Chambers Ireland

Intel was presented with an award for the 'Best Community Based Project' by a multinational at the annual Chambers Ireland President's Awards for Corporate Social Responsibility.

The award was presented to Intel for the long standing relationships that we have developed with the local community.

Intel's Public Affairs Manager, Trevor Holmes collected the award, "Our relationship with our local communities is paramount to us and I'm delighted that it has been recognized in this prestigious way. This award is a tremendous acknowledgement of the time and talent that our employees continue to invest in our communities."

The awards were run in association with the Department of Community Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and are sponsored by Cityjet, and the winners were presented with specially produced Waterford Crystal vases by Minister of State Noel Ahern T.D. The Chambers of Commerce of Ireland's President's Awards for CSR were established in 2004 to recognise the work being carried out by small, medium and large Irish and multinational companies to improve the lives of their employees and to enhance the civic environment in which they operate.

Bringing connectivity and computers to the Amazon In one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth, the Amazon, Intel has created a wireless, high-speed Internet network for residents to access vast resources of medical, educational and commercial knowledge through computers. The project is part of the Intel World Ahead Program, an initiative in which Intel plans to invest more than $US 1 billion globally over the next 5 years to accelerate access to computers, the Internet and technology for people in developing communities.

The digital transformation of Parintins, a town on an island in the Amazon River, is expected to improve the healthcare and education of its 114,000 residents and advance the lives of future generations.

"Technology has expanded what is possible in Parintins," said Intel Chairman Craig Barrett at a dedication ceremony in the Amazon rain forest. "It is now a place where wireless broadband links to the Internet bring the expertise of specialists, sophisticated medical imaging and the world's libraries to a community reachable only by airplane or boat."

Working with the Brazilian government and business and education officials, Intel and its collaborators installed a state-of-the-art WiMAX network for a primary healthcare center, two public schools, a community center and Amazon University. Intel also donated and installed telemedicine equipment at the health center and computer labs at the two schools where students and teachers can regularly connect to the outside world for the first time. "We've been blessed with this project," said Parintins Mayor Frank Bi Garcia. "We're really isolated and don't have the conditions to receive the Internet with cables. So we're receiving it wireless, from antennas, from satellites – access to wireless Internet is a great pleasure for us. This project will prepare this generation for the future."

"We've been blessed with this project," said Parintins Mayor Frank Bi Garcia. "We're really isolated and don't have the conditions to receive the Internet with cables. So we're receiving it wireless, from antennas, from satellites – access to wireless Internet is a great pleasure for us. This project will prepare this generation for the future."

Intel led the effort in the island city on the Amazon River with support from Cisco, CPqD, Embratel, Proxim and the Bradesco Foundation, as well as Amazonas State University, Amazonas Federal University and São Paulo University.

As part of Parintins' digital makeover, Amazon University is starting a telemedicine program developed jointly with the medical school of Sao Paulo University. The new capabilities – including real-time, video interaction between specialists and patients hundreds of miles apart – give the town's 32 doctors faster and greater access to the latest medical data or second opinions. Doctors say telemedicine will also help in preventing the spread of such diseases as AIDS and leprosy.

The solution in the Amazon is to be followed by others planned by Intel for isolated communities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, where electricity and telecommunications are unreliable or antiquated and transportation is difficult.

The wireless infrastructure includes short-range Wi-Fi radio transmissions and WiMAX, which has an extended transmitting range of up to 30 miles. WiMAX is designed to be a less costly and more efficient way to build wireless computing and communications networks for broadband access.

Intel employees at award ceremony

The Excellence in Ecology and Economy (E3) Award recognizes companies that demonstrate innovative and outstanding environmental performance as part of their sustainable development strategy.

This award honors small, medium and large companies that demonstrate the benefits of incorporating environmental concerns into their business. Among the finalists for the large enterprise category were Toyota Motors Philippines, San Miguel Packaging, and Republic Asahi Glass.

This year the Philippines President presented the award in the large enterprise category at the recognition ceremony to the Intel Technology Philippines team for their outstanding work in business and the environmental as well as quality management.

Intel Technology Philippines demonstrated significant business and environment gains by integrating environmental management into the organization. They initiated pioneering efforts in pollution prevention which were above and beyond environmental compliance. The team was recognized for their efforts in energy conservation, chemical and solid waste recycling as well as their community outreach. In addition, the Intel site in the Philippines also exemplified corporate social responsibility and company governance.

Building on Intel Corporation's long-history of commitment to environmental leadership, Intel announced their membership in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Climate Leaders program. Climate Leaders is an industry-government partnership under which companies develop goals and strategies aimed at reducing their overall climate change impact.

"We believe global climate change is a significant issue and we have been taking steps to reduce our impact on climate change for many years", said Todd Brady, Intel's Corporate Environmental Manger. "Participating in EPA's Climate Leaders program will help raise awareness for this issue, and allow us to share our learnings with other committed companies," said Brady.

In the early 90's, Intel led an industry coalition between the semiconductor industry and governments to develop a global agreement to reduce emissions of perfluorocompounds (PFCs) which are chemicals with a high global warming impact. Intel has reduced its normalized energy consumption by more than 20 percent over the last three years. In addition to Intel's success in reducing the climate change impacts of their operations, Intel has achieved great success in designing and manufacturing energy efficient products.

Intel's latest microprocessors the Intel® Core™2 Duo processors are more energy efficient than the previous generation desktop processors, and Intel pioneered Intel SpeedStep® technology and the "Instantly Available PC" technology that makes computers more energy efficient.

Tan and Zhenghua Jiang

Intel China received the China Best Corporate Citizen Award, sponsored by the China Association of Social Workers and CCTV Economy Channel. Intel was recognized for its outstanding contribution to China's local economy, consumers, community, government, employees, public affairs, OEMs and the environment during the past year.

Wee Theng Tan, Intel China President, received the prestigious award on Intel China's behalf and at the same time won an award for himself as the, "2006 China's best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Entrepreneur Award".

Zhenghua Jiang, vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, presented the award to winning corporations and delivered an in-depth speech on the cause-and-effect relationship between a company's performance and its social responsibility. "A company can only succeed in an industry if it fulfills its social responsibility."

The awarding ceremony was followed by the China Corporate Citizenship Forum, where Tan delivered a keynote speech and shared his vision on corporate citizen's social responsibility from the perspective of a multinational company with investments in China. In his speech, he highlighted the contributions of Intel China employees to the community, education and the environment and reiterated how this is the right thing to do.

Promoting EHS values in children

Hundreds of students from the No. 2 Primary School of Hi-Tech Zone welcomed Intel Chengdu volunteers on September 29 for a week long program of quizzes and games promoting Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) values. Devoting 200 hours of service, more than 40 volunteers taught students aged 6 to 12 a range of topics that included protection from fire, injury and food poisoning.

Using rulers, pencils, stationery provided by Intel, students also drew pictures demonstrating how they can protect the environment. "I never thought of using water from washing rice to water our plants," said one 8-yr old boy, who was also taught the value of not putting batteries and garbage together or watching TV during a thunderstorm. "Intel uncles and aunties taught us creative ways of how we can work together to save our environment, and I will share these with my parents as well."

Surveys conducted before and after the activity showed how students' awareness regarding EHS increased by 30 percent. Ganjianrong, a teacher of the school, said, "This is a fun and interesting way for the students to learn new things, and we appreciate how a great company like Intel could spend time with a school like ours to promote these values."

"To enrich and sustain what the kids have learned this week, we've produced the EHS Booklet for Primary School Kids which summarizes all the key EHS ideas," shares Intel volunteer leader Walter Chen, "It talks about how to be safe in public and at home while performing basic tasks, and provides information on how to stay healthy and keep our air, water, and soil clean." The first of its kind to be distributed in this area, the EHS Booklet is one of the four Intel Site EHS Signature projects, a global program designed to promote EHS values to local communities.

Today, Intel's Public Affairs and EHS Department continue to work closely together to promote these values to different schools, by involving more NGOs and volunteers. "Our overall goal," says Allen Wilson, Intel Chengdu EHS Manager, "is to help get children excited about these topics and to help instill a strong safety, health, and environmental passion in them that lasts a lifetime. Our EHS visions is Protecting Today, Creating a Better Tomorrow, Together and we want to help instill this vision in people everywhere."

Intel's sites in China and Israel produced their own CSR reports. To view the reports in Mandarin and Hebrew, respectively click on the PDFs.

2005 Intel CSR Report in Mandrin.

2005 Intel CSR Report in Hebrew.

Intel's first "green" building Haifa, Israel.

After much internal debate and analysis, Intel moved a big step closer towards obtaining its first "LEED certified" green building. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System® is a voluntary, consensus-based standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. The new Intel building, which is currently undergoing the LEED standard certification procedure, will be located in Haifa, Israel and will be home to Intel's latest Development Design Center

As part of the LEED certification, the new design center will use: environmentally friendly building materials and construction methods; natural and controlled lighting by means of an internal patio which infuses light into all levels from an atrium; air-conditioning and electrical system which both save and recycle energy; and an irrigation system which utilizes only recycled water. Miki Livnat, Intel's Environmental, Health, and Safety manager for the region stated, "The project team was passionate about building a green building, and despite initial skepticism, they drove this project from a concept to a reality."

Why did it take so long to for Intel to get its first green building? Intel engineers have been evaluating "green" design standards and steadily incorporating green building concepts and practices into the construction of its buildings for years – but the LEED design criteria present a comprehensive set of design metrics that must be satisfied to receive certification. In an environment where construction costs are increasing and every dollar is carefully scrutinized, spending money on "certification" can easily fall to the bottom of the construction priority list. "When there is a clear ROI (return on investment) for integrating individual "green features" into our building design, it's easier to make it part of the design specifications for all building", said Intel's Principle Engineer Ted Reichelt. Unfortunately, not all of the requirements associated with obtaining LEED certification, like the certification process itself, have an easily measurable ROI. Intel designed and constructed world-class energy efficient buildings that met the majority of requirements for LEED certification, but they were unable to overcome the internal resistance to the certification process and associated costs and obtain the LEED designation.

What changed? "Our construction managers started hearing more about other projects being LEED certified, and this created greater internal acceptance of the idea; additionally, the costs associated with the LEED certification started to fall," said Reichelt. Intel hopes that the experience with the Hafia building will lead to other office buildings being LEED certified and eventually to Intel's first LEED certified Fab.