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INTEL 2012 HIGHLIGHTS – YEAR IN REVIEW

December, 2012: 2012 was an exciting year for the Asia Pacific region. Technology innovation from the region made possible devices with an immersive and personal computing experience. is proud to be a driving force behind this innovation. Creating and extending computing technology to connect and enrich lives has been Intel’s company vision. This year Intel made a leap forward by delivering next generation processors that changed the way people use and interact with computing technology from interactive signs, smart cars to smartphones, tablets, Ultrabooks™ and servers. Intel also continued its work to help transform Asia into a global powerhouse through a focus on education, encouraging the adoption of 21st century skills and investing in Asian start-ups and entrepreneurs across the region.

1. Transforming the Computing Experience:

Intel conducted research1 which found that the ability to navigate through content using a touch screen makes people feel more empowered and in control. Intel has engineers dedicated to work hand in hand with vendors and promise consumers a greater mobile experience. One example of innovation coming out of this industry collaboration was the launch of a new 32nm Intel® ™ Z2760 processor platform targeted at an array of Windows* 8 tablets and convertibles with touch, capable of delivering an always-on, always-connected experience and all-day battery life.

In 2012 Intel made smarter, faster and more secure computing possible through the integration of revolutionary technology. The first processors built on Intel’s innovative 22nm 3-D tri-gate transistors came to market with the launch of the 3rd Gen Intel® Core™ processor family. As a result Ultrabooks and other PC systems are now equipped with new technology that enables faster file transfers, super-quick start times, quick connections and greater security2.

Asian technology brands such as Acer*, *, * and Toshiba* * continued to play an increasing innovative role and were among the first to launch Ultrabooks and Windows 8* ready tablets With over 140 designs in the pipeline and 70 Ultrabook systems with our 3rd Gen processors now in market, Intel will continue to build a strong pipeline of Ultrabooks for customers this year and beyond. Intel aims to support the growing needs of our consumers for fast, responsive computing experiences with longer battery life all packaged in a thin and light design. In fact approximately 40 different Ultrabooks with touch and running Windows 8 will come to market as we exit 2012 and head into 2013, of which ten of them are convertible designs, marrying the best of a tablet and an Ultrabook.

At Computex, Intel showcased new experiences for Ultrabook convertibles and announced agreements with several leading touch vendors including Cando*, HannsTouch*, TPK* and Wintek*, to ensure capacity of touch technology for the expected growth and demand for touch-enabled Ultrabook convertible designs experiences over the next several years.

1 Research conducted by Intel PC Client Solutions Division in USA, China, Italy and Brazil. The testing observed and tracked 81 individuals while using a touch clamshell device. Over 4,000 interactions during a number of scenarios were logged throughout the research. 2 When compared with Intel’s previous generation of Core processors.

The first smartphones with Intel Inside® launched across high-growth markets such as India, China, Europe and Latin America. Intel India helped with the launch of the first Intel-based smartphone, the Lava* XOLO X900 based on Intel® Atom™ Z2460 processor in April. Other customers introducing Intel-based phones this past year include Lenovo*, Orange*, Megafon*, Motorola Mobility*and ZTE*. All of the Intel-based designs have delivered high performance capabilities with very competitive low power and battery life.

Continuing Intel’s commitment to consumers to make computing easier, faster and more engaging will continue with the company’s planned 4th Gen Intel® Core™ processor family that is expected to reach consumers in 2013.

2. Enterprising Asia:

Asian businesses are going from strength to strength and Intel is working to support these businesses to become even more competitive. For example Blackmagic Design, a Singaporean based post- production company specializing in commercials and feature film finishing, needed high power processors to increase rendering performance and complete jobs faster. By installing a multi-core processor-based server the company was able to access more memory as required, lower power costs and be more creative.

2012 was also a growth year for “big data” as the term attracted more interest from organisations than ever before. The Intel® ® E5 processor family launched in March offered an eight-core option for the first time to help organize and crunch this data. These processors provide a 67 percent performance boost3 and integrate I/O support into the platform, allowing service providers to deliver new services and handle greater network traffic loads. Business that correctly store and mine company or customer data can uncover valuable insights and information. For example Wal-Mart* (an American retailer) was one of the early pioneers in this field, using predictive analytics to better identify customer preferences on a regional basis and stock their branch locations accordingly. Big data opens the door to uncovering trends and patterns in data and can lead to discovering manufacturing efficiencies, improving customer awareness, developing new marketing strategies and uncovering new sales opportunities.

Further supporting enterprise growth, Intel launched the Intel® Xeon® E7 processor family to provide robust support for mission critical applications and advanced reliability, availability and serviceability to customers across Asia. These features have been integrated into the silicon and system level to provide the data integrity and system resilience required to support mission critical environments.

Intel predicts that 15 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2015; this will cause tremendous growth in data and a host of new IT challenges. Intel offers organisations and high performance computers the processing power to extract trends and meaning from their data with the Intel Xeon processors.

At Intel’s Developer Forum this year, Intel also announced that it is working with Amazon Web Services to take advantage of servers based on Intel Xeon E5 processors to deliver high performance computing services for big data analytics in the cloud.

Intel and McAfee have a shared, multi-year mission to enable highly secure cloud computing for any given workload running on any connected infrastructure. With hardware-enhanced security technologies, plus software solutions and services available from Intel, McAfee and a broad ecosystem of partners, companies can start building a more secure foundation today.

3. Creating a Brighter Future

3 When compared to previous generation Xeon processors.

At this year’s World Economic Forum – East Asia Intel called for governments and industry to take action together, to capitalize on the strengths of a connected ASEAN region. During the year Intel has worked to bridge the digital divide, by committing to foster Asian talent, invest in Asian creativity and work with governments and non-government organizations; to create jobs, modernize existing technology infrastructure and transform education.

Fostering Future Asian Talent Thirty-six teams from Asia were selected as finalists for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. This year the competition attracted more than 1,500 talented high school students from around the world to compete for over US$3 million in prizes and grants.

Raghavendra Ramachanderan, an Indian national, from St. John's International Residential School was selected as a winner for the “Best of Category” (top 17 globally). Raghavendra was awarded US$3,000 and the ‘Glenn T. Seaborg Nobel trip’ prize to travel to the Nobel ceremony in Sweden, for his project entitled ‘visible light deoxygenation’.

The Intel® Teach Program has helped millions of teachers harness technology to improve learning in the classroom. Worldwide, Intel trained more than 10 million teachers and we have trained more than 2.6 million teachers across 13 APAC countries. In Country … [Country teams to add local number of trained teachers from 2012 or progress made in 2012 here.] For a global view, a map showing Intel Teach programs across the world is available online.

Supporting Governments Intel wholeheartedly believes in the powerful impact of knowledge and its application within our community. Working with governments across the region Intel aims to improve infrastructure and education, by supporting governments to develop policies, systems and make investments that foster positive futures.

In COUNTRY … [Country teams to add local examples of Intel working with government agencies for the betterment of the community here. Some proof points listed at the end of this document as reference points.]

Celebrating Four Decades of Job Creation and Invention Intel celebrated 40 years of manufacturing operations, invention and innovation in Malaysia this year. The Penang manufacturing center was the first offshore site for Intel and has grown from 100 employees to over 9,000 employees today. The local team takes pride in having total ownership from silicon to product design for the 22-nanometer 3rd Gen Intel Core processors. In Vietnam Intel installed the largest operating solar power plant in the country, further supporting Intel’s commitment to green energy. The facility's opening coincided with the release of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) list of Top 50 Green-Powered Organizations, Intel has topped the list every year since 2008.

During the global celebrations for a decade of innovation at Intel labs, the creation of the seventh Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) program, focused on social computing was announced. As with the other six ISTCs -- covering big data, cloud computing, embedded computing, visual computing, secure computing and pervasive computing -- the new social computing center is designed to foster tighter collaboration between Intel and academia.

Boosting Economic Development Through Investment Intel Capital has been investing in APAC since 1998 and has invested over US$1.2 billion to date in the region. Intel Capital’s areas of focus are mobile computing, consumer Internet; cloud computing, Ultrabook, software and services, smartphones and semiconductor design and manufacturing.

During 2012 Intel Capital made six new investments in Asia Pacific and saw two portfolio company exits through IPO and/or M&A this year, including: MCX*: India and Olaworks*: Korea.

The US$250 million Intel Capital India Technology Fund, launched in December 2005, is over 80 percent deployed. Over 40 Indian technology companies have received investment from the fund to date.

In 2012 Intel continued to reinforce its investment in partners across the Asia Pacific holding a partner conference in May. 7,000 new partners joined the ecosystem across the Asia Pacific in the last year; bringing the total number of partners up to 45,000. Intel provides partners the building blocks for desktop, mobile and server CPUs, motherboards and systems to help deliver new products and solutions to market.

Communities are built on the people within them, and Intel’s employees are the conduit by which the company interacts and immerses itself within its communities. The Intel employee volunteer program – Intel Involved – is designed to empower, support and recognize employees who volunteer in their communities. Through this approach we ensure that our involvement with communities provides long-term solutions rather than reactive and ad-hoc support. In COUNTRY… [country teams to add CSR examples from 2012]

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APPENDIX: e-Government Initiatives

 Intel Indonesia: worked closely with KADIN in formulating a new IT roadmap which was handed to the Indonesia government; won a tender from Directorate General of Taxes in 2011 to wire 150 branch tax collection points with 4,100 units of 2nd gen Core PCs.

 Intel Malaysia: worked with PRADOTEC to launch home-grown mobile ePassport reading device HPT600, the world’s first handheld e-Passport terminal (Atom-based), which fulfills the growing government needs for automated, fast, reliable & secure verification of ID’s in a mobile environment.

 Also in Malaysia, Intel partnered with Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) to put on the MDeC-Intel Microprocessor Design Forum (MIMDF). The forum saw twenty-five lecturers from nine higher learning institutes to come together to participate in a series of lectures and lab sessions on the applications and practical aspects of the VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) Design Curriculum. Participating universities were assigned projects on Intellectual Property (IP) Design with the outcome to be shared in nine months’ time.

 In Intel were excited to announce the results of years of collaborative work with the Ministry of Education. The Embedded Software Consortium is part of Intel’s long-term collaboration with academia, and aims to nurture Taiwanese technical talent by supporting universities as they develop curricula to keep pace with changing computing industry dynamics, especially the emergence of parallel computing.

 Intel Thailand: collaborated closely with the Ministry of Science and Technology to establish a training center at the Software Park in order to support the Ministry on broadband drive, forum organizations and regular meetings with the government and private sectors.

 Intel Vietnam: Intel & Danang Dept of Information & Communication (DNDIC) signed a MOU for IT collaboration in 2011-2012 – to enhance the planning, management & utilization capability of the Danang DC; Cloud infrastructure for e-government seminars and workshops were conducted to help train and educate key IT staff and users of Danang.

Intel’s CSR Work in 2012:

 General information and examples to inspire local proof points: http://www.intel.com/cd/corporate/csr/apac/eng/news/news38/507312.htm

Intel Teach:

 To-date the Intel Teach program has trained 520,000 teachers in ASEAN  Australia: to date, we have trained more than 25,000 teachers in Australia  Indonesia: more than 63k trained  India: 1.6M teachers trained  Korea: 146k trained  Malaysia: In 2000, Intel Teach program was first introduced and now the program is on a roll. Intel has helped train more than 77,000 teachers with the curriculum content that emphasizes pillars such as ICT integration in classroom, 21st century skills and critical and higher order thinking.  Pakistan: 318k trained  Philippines: 131k trained  Taiwan: 106k trained  Thailand: worked with the Ministry of Education on Intel® Teach program to train 130,000+ teachers; worked closely with the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) to support young Thai talent to attend ISEF in the United StatesIntel® Easy Steps brings digital literacy to adult learners without computer experience, to help them set up small businesses.