Intel To Combine Communications Groups

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec.10, 2003 - Intel Corporation today announced it is combining its communications-related businesses into a single organization: the Intel Communications Group (ICG).

Intel's communications efforts -- providing building blocks for the communications infrastructure and the cellular and handheld computing market segments -- have been divided between ICG and the Wireless Communications and Computing Group (WCCG). The newly combined organization will be headed by Sean Maloney, Intel executive vice president and general manager of ICG.

Separately, the company announced that Ron Smith, Intel senior vice president and general manager of Intel's WCCG unit, will retire early next year.

"We continue to drive the convergence of computing and communications through our product lineup, and with this we see wireless local area networking and wide area cellular technologies coming together," said Intel CEO Craig Barrett. "Consolidation gives us better product planning and customer focus in these strategically critical areas going forward."

ICG will assume WCCG's product portfolio in addition to its current focus on network processors, wireless LAN chipsets, gigabit networking solutions, network cards and related infrastructure technologies. WCCG products include processors based on Intel® XScale technology along with chipsets, reference designs, software and other technologies built around the Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel® PCA). Products also include Intel's flash memory business and digital signal processing activities.

Smith, 53, is a 26-year veteran of the company. He led Intel's movement into CMOS with development of the process for manufacturing Intel's 80386 processor. Smith went on to lead Intel's embedded processor and PCI components divisions. More recently, as general manager of WCCG he led Intel's efforts in flash memory and processors based on Intel XScale technology for the cellular and handheld computing market segments.

"Ron has played an instrumental role at this company and had many successes in a number of diverse areas over the years," Barrett said. "He's been a key contributor to our success, and he will be missed. We wish Ron well in his retirement."

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