Top 5 Semiconductor Companies To Own For 2015

Top 5 Semiconductor Companies To Own For 2015: Intel Corporation(INTC)

Intel Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of integrated circuits for computing and communications industries worldwide. It offers microprocessor products used in notebooks, netbooks, desktops, servers, workstations, storage products, embedded applications, communications products, consumer electronics devices, and handhelds. The company also provides system on chip products that integrate its core processing functionalities with other system components, such as graphics, audio, and video, onto a single chip. In addition, it offers chipset products that send data between the microprocessor and input, display, and storage devices, including keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive, and CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives; motherboards designed for desktop, server, and workstation platforms, and that has connectors for attaching devices to the bus; and wired and wireless connectivity products consisting of network adapters and embedded wireless cards used to translate and transmit data across networks. Further, the company provides NAND flash memory products primarily used in portable memory storage devices, digital camera memory cards, and solid-state drives; software products comprising operating systems, middleware, and tools used to develop, run, and manage various enterprise, consumer, embedded, and handheld devices; and software development tools that enable the creation of applications. Additionally, it develops computing platforms, which are integrated hardware and software computing technologies designed to offer an optimized solution. The company sells its products principally to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, PC components and other products users, and other manufacturers of industrial and communications equipment. It has a strategic alliance with Scientific Conservation Inc. Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Adviso! rs' Opinion:

• [By Steve Heller]

  As the world continues to embrace the mobile computing revolution, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC  ) remains entrenched in the PC world. In the coming years, Intel hopes it can gain a foothold in the smartphone and tablet space with the help of its technologically superior foundries. Given the market conditions within the mobile computing industry, Intel may be up against revenue pressures in the future. In this video, Fool contributor Steve Heller weighs in on if Intel needs to cannibalize itself to survive and what that could that mean for investors longer term.

• [By Steve Symington]

  It's been more than 40 years since Intel (NASDAQ: INTC  ) invented the first microprocessor in 1971, and today, the company has grown into a $124 billion tech giant largely by providing powerful central processing units -- the brains of traditional computers, if you will -- to the ever-growing PC industry.

• [By Evan Niu, CFA]

  Instead, devices are predominantly running on Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC  ) latest Haswell chips, which mostly negate Windows RT's whole purpose to begin with. Haswell's strong power efficiency gains in Windows 8 devices give consumers one less reason to consider Windows RT tablets.

• [By Brian Pacampara]

  What: Shares of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC  ) traded sluggishly on Wednesday after the chip gorilla posted in-line Q2 results and received a buy-to-neutral downgrade from B. Riley & Co.

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