Intel CEO: Smaller Gadgets Will Expand Market

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This is a few days old, but I just ran across it and thought I'd post it here for posterity.

By PETER SVENSSON – 4 days ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Intel Corp.'s push to create and boost new categories of small, cheap Internet-connected devices is taking the world's largest chip maker in some unusual directions.

It's investing in wireless networks, or even buying them outright. It's relying on software that isn't from Microsoft. And it's looking at making processors cheaper and smaller rather than faster and faster.

To Chief Executive Paul Otellini, it's all part of bringing the Internet to new places and people, and computer makers are responding.

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"I see much of the activity in Mobile Internet Devices, sort of the evolution of the handset, being centered around Linux," he said.

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