Hot Semiconductor Companies To Invest In 2015

Hot Semiconductor Companies To Invest In 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. Int! el Corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rex Crum]

  Other gains came from IBM Corp. (IBM) , Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) , Intel Corp. (INTC)  and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) .

• [By Ashraf Eassa]

  There seems to be a public misconception that Samsung (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF  ) spends more on leading-edge logic semiconductor development than Intel (NASDAQ: INTC  ) does. This has been the primary reason why some investors believe that Samsung will one day match, and then exceed, what Intel does vis-a-vis chip building. While Samsung may very well do so -- though personally I'm not betting on it -- it won't be due to the South Korean giant outspending Intel.

• [By Ashraf Eassa]

  In the article Intel Corporation's Atom Z3580 Is Another Big Step Forward, we talked through a set of Intel (NASDAQ: INTC  ) marketing claims touting the performance of its Z3580. Intel's chip competes well on CPU and GPU performance against the Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM  ) Snapdragon 801 found in flagship phones such as the Samsung (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF  ) Galaxy S5 and the LG G3, losing only in camera/imaging performance and integration. However, a reader noted in the comments section of that piece that a more appropriate comparison would be to Qualcomm's recently announced Snapdragon 805.

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