What was your impression of the company before and after the research?

My impression of both companies have hardly changed after I delved into further research.



Intel Mobile Communications was only recently formed, after Intel Corporation acquired Infineon Wireless Solutions. After reading the news a few months back, I concluded that Intel, with its significant market share and enormous output capacity, would shoot straight to the front of the mobile transmitter/reciever market in terms of product design and distribution. It has.

Whether it is GPS recievers, mobile baseband ICs or Bluetooth radios, Intel Mobile Communications is one of the big players, besides Freescale, Broadcom and in the future, perhaps NVIDIA with its acquisition of Icera.

Applied Technologies, on the other hand, has been the market leader for wafer fabrication, solar and automation technology for many, many years. Since its formation in 1967, it has manufactured wafer fabrication and etching machinery for other companies, interestingly including Intel Mobile Communications itself.

It has also been instrumental in getting new technologies to the market quickly. With the advent of 3D integrated circuits and multi-gate transistors, Applied Materials acted quickly to produce etching and substrate processing machinery to make mass production of such technologies viable. It remains the leader in semiconductor and IC manufacturing.