What is the rationale behind the launch of the 0.13 micron-based processors at this point?
We are a technology company and we continue to invest in technology. What 0.13 micron does is bring higher value products like Pentium IV and the like to mainstream. This is the base technology. The signal we are sending is that we continue to invest at the same or higher level even during the slowdown. Today we are talking of the mobile products and later this year we will see this in the desktop and servers. We are already investing in the next 2-4 technologies. Intel has been talking about a transition to the digital world. Can you comment in some detail on this phenomenon? First there was LAN, then there was WAN and now there is the Internet. What Intel is saying is that we are looking at the internet as an area where we will be designing products utilised in different forms connecting to it. The world is changing quite a bit and devices are getting digital. However, the fabric connecting everything is the Internet. And we will design the building blocks of the Web. There are two a
