Otellini made the prediction at the company’s analyst meeting in Santa Clara. He said that he expects the computing market to have a 15 percent to 16 percent compound annual growth rate for the next five years.
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Confirming a view that we wrote about in our story of the rise of vertically organized companies, Otellini pointed out that Intel isn’t just a chip company. It has layers of business on top of that, including hardware platforms, software, and services. About 22 percent of Intel’s employees are software programmers.
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