125 Facts About Intel Press

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Intel Press Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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Intel Press was a key component of the rise of Silicon Valley as a high-tech center.

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Intel Press was an early developer of SRAM and DRAM memory chips, which represented the majority of its business until 1981.

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In 1992, Intel Press became the biggest chip maker by revenue and held the position until 2018 when it was surpassed by Samsung, but Intel Press returned to its former position the year after.

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Only major competitor in the x86 processor market is AMD, with which Intel Press has had full cross-licensing agreements since 1976: each partner can use the other's patented technological innovations without charge after a certain time.

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Intel Press has been involved in several disputes regarding violation of antitrust laws, which are noted below.

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Just 2 years later, Intel Press became a public company via an initial public offering, raising $6.

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At its founding, Intel Press was distinguished by its ability to make logic circuits using semiconductor devices.

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Intel Press's business grew during the 1970s as it expanded and improved its manufacturing processes and produced a wider range of products, still dominated by various memory devices.

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Intel Press created the first commercially available microprocessor in 1971.

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Intel Press opened its first international manufacturing facility in 1972, in Malaysia, which would host multiple Intel Press operations, before opening assembly facilities and semiconductor plants in Singapore and Jerusalem in the early 1980s, and manufacturing and development centres in China, India and Costa Rica in the 1990s.

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The growing success of the IBM personal computer, based on an Intel Press microprocessor, was among factors that convinced Gordon Moore to shift the company's focus to microprocessors and to change fundamental aspects of that business model.

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Intel Press had for a number of years been embroiled in litigation.

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In 2006, Intel Press unveiled its Core microarchitecture to widespread critical acclaim; the product range was perceived as an exceptional leap in processor performance that at a stroke regained much of its leadership of the field.

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Later that year, Intel Press released a processor with the Nehalem architecture to positive reception.

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In 2008, Intel Press spun off key assets of a solar startup business effort to form an independent company, SpectraWatt Inc In 2011, SpectraWatt filed for bankruptcy.

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Intel Press produces three-quarters of its products in the United States, although three-quarters of its revenue come from overseas.

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Alliance for Affordable Internet was launched in October 2013 and Intel Press is part of the coalition of public and private organizations that includes Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

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In December 2011, Intel Press announced that it reorganized several of its business units into a new mobile and communications group that would be responsible for the company's smartphone, tablet, and wireless efforts.

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Intel Press planned to introduce Medfield – a processor for tablets and smartphones – to the market in 2012, as an effort to compete with ARM.

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In 2013, Intel Press's Kirk Skaugen said that Intel Press's exclusive focus on Microsoft platforms was a thing of the past and that they would now support all "tier-one operating systems" such as Linux, Android, iOS, and Chrome.

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In 2014, Intel Press cut thousands of employees in response to "evolving market trends", and offered to subsidize manufacturers for the extra costs involved in using Intel Press chips in their tablets.

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Intel Press continued its tick-tock model of a microarchitecture change followed by a die shrink until the 6th generation Core family based on the Skylake microarchitecture.

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In January 2022, Intel Press reportedly selected New Albany, Ohio, near Columbus, Ohio, as the site for a major new manufacturing facility.

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Intel Press expects the facility to begin producing chips by 2025.

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Intel Press convinced customers that this would ensure consistent delivery.

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In doing this, Intel Press breached its contract with AMD, which sued and was paid millions of dollars in damages but could not manufacture new Intel Press CPU designs any longer.

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Intel Press introduced the 486 microprocessor in 1989, and in 1990 established a second design team, designing the processors code-named "P5" and "P6" in parallel and committing to a major new processor every two years, versus the four or more years such designs had previously taken.

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The P5 was introduced in 1993 as the Intel Press Pentium, substituting a registered trademark name for the former part number .

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In 2017, Intel Press announced that the Itanium 9700 series would be the last Itanium chips produced.

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Shortly after, Intel Press began manufacturing fully configured "white box" systems for the dozens of PC clone companies that rapidly sprang up.

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In June 1994, Intel Press engineers discovered a flaw in the floating-point math subsection of the P5 Pentium microprocessor.

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Intel Press changed its position and offered to replace every chip, quickly putting in place a large end-user support organization.

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Dr Nicely later learned that Intel Press had discovered the FDIV bug in its own testing a few months before him .

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In November 2008, Intel Press released the first generation Core processors based on the Nehalem microarchitecture.

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Intel Press introduced a new naming scheme, with the three variants now named Core i3, i5, and i7 .

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In 2011, Intel Press released the Sandy Bridge-based 2nd generation Core processor family.

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Intel Press continued its tick-tock model of a microarchitecture change followed by a die shrink until the 6th generation Core family based on the Skylake microarchitecture.

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From 2016 until 2021, Intel Press later released more optimizations on the Skylake microarchitecture with Kaby Lake R, Amber Lake, Whiskey Lake, Coffee Lake, Coffee Lake R, and Comet Lake.

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Intel Press struggled to shrink their process node from 14 nm to 10 nm, with the first microarchitecture under that node, Cannon Lake, only being released in small quantities in 2018.

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In early January 2018, it was reported that all Intel Press processors made since 1995 have been subject to two security flaws dubbed Meltdown and Spectre.

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Intel Press reported that they are preparing new patches to mitigate these flaws.

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In 2017, Intel Press introduced SSDs based on 3D XPoint technology under the Optane brand name.

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In July 2022, Intel Press disclosed in its Q2 earnings report that it would cease future product development within its Optane business.

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In November 2014, Intel Press revealed that it is going to use light beams to speed up supercomputers.

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Intel Press is one of the biggest stakeholders in the self-driving car industry, having joined the race in mid 2017 after joining forces with Mobileye.

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Intel Press learned that voice control regulator is vital, and the interface between the humans and machine eases the discomfort condition, and brings some sense of control back.

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Intel Press has sold Stratix, Arria, and Cyclone FPGAs since acquiring Altera in 2015.

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In 2019, Intel Press released Agilex FPGAs: chips aimed at data centers, 5G applications, and other uses.

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Gaede videotaped data from his computer screen at Intel Press and mailed it to AMD, which immediately alerted Intel Press and authorities, resulting in Gaede's arrest.

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Intel Press has a mandatory retirement policy for its CEOs when they reach age 65.

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Intel Press's headquarters are located in Santa Clara, California, and the company has operations around the world.

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In March 2014, it was reported that Intel Press would embark upon a $6 billion plan to expand its activities in Israel.

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In 2021, Intel Press reversed course under new CEO Pat Gelsinger and started hiring thousands of engineers.

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Intel Press has a Diversity Initiative, including employee diversity groups as well as supplier diversity programs.

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In 1994, Intel Press sanctioned one of the earliest corporate Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender employee groups, and supports a Muslim employees group, a Jewish employees group, and a Bible-based Christian group.

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In January 2015, Intel Press announced the investment of $300 million over the next five years to enhance gender and racial diversity in their own company as well as the technology industry as a whole.

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NPR reports that Intel Press is facing a retention problem, not just a pipeline problem.

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Intel Press has been operating in the State of Israel since Dov Frohman founded the Israeli branch of the company in 1974 in a small office in Haifa.

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In 2010, Intel Press purchased McAfee, a manufacturer of computer security technology, for $7.

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In September 2016, Intel Press sold a majority stake in its computer-security unit to TPG Capital, reversing the five-year-old McAfee acquisition.

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Intel Press planned to use Infineon's technology in laptops, smart phones, netbooks, tablets and embedded computers in consumer products, eventually integrating its wireless modem into Intel Press's silicon chips.

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In July 2011, Intel Press announced that it had agreed to acquire Fulcrum Microsystems Inc, a company specializing in network switches.

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Intel Press used to be included on the EE Times list of 60 Emerging Startups.

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In October 2011, Intel Press reached a deal to acquire Telmap, an Israeli-based navigation software company.

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In July 2013, Intel Press confirmed the acquisition of Omek Interactive, an Israeli company that makes technology for gesture-based interfaces, without disclosing the monetary value of the deal.

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In February 2015, Intel Press announced its agreement to purchase German network chipmaker Lantiq, to aid in its expansion of its range of chips in devices with Internet connection capability.

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In June 2015, Intel Press announced its agreement to purchase FPGA design company Altera for $16.

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In October 2015, Intel Press bought cognitive computing company Saffron Technology for an undisclosed price.

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In December 2016, Intel Press acquired computer vision startup Movidius for an undisclosed price.

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In March 2017, Intel Press announced that they had agreed to purchase Mobileye, an Israeli developer of "autonomous driving" systems for US$15.

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In January 2019, Intel Press announced an investment of over $11 billion on a new Israeli chip plant, as told by the Israeli Finance Minister.

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In November 2021, Intel Press recruited some of the employees of the Centaur Technology division from VIA Technologies, a deal worth $125 million, and effectively acquiring the talent and knowhow of their x86 division.

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In December 2021, Intel Press announced its plan to take Mobileye automotive unit via an IPO of newly issued stock in 2022, maintaining its majority ownership of the company.

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In May 2022, Intel Press announced that they have acquired Finnish graphics technology firm Siru innovations.

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The firm founded by ex-AMD Qualcomm mobile GPU engineers, is focused on developing software and silicon building blocks for GPU's made by other companies and is set to join Intel Press's fledgling Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group.

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In May 2022, it was announced that Ericsson and Intel Press, are pooling research and development to create high-performing Cloud RAN solutions.

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In 2011, Intel Press Capital announced a new fund to support startups working on technologies in line with the company's concept for next generation notebooks.

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Intel Press is setting aside a $300 million fund to be spent over the next three to four years in areas related to ultrabooks.

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Intel Press has a significant participation in the open source communities since 1999.

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For example, in 2006 Intel released MIT-licensed X org drivers for their integrated graphic cards of the i965 family of chipsets.

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Intel Press released FreeBSD drivers for some networking cards, available under a BSD-compatible license, which were ported to OpenBSD.

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Linspire-Linux creator Michael Robertson outlined the difficult position that Intel Press was in releasing to open source, as Intel Press did not want to upset their large customer Microsoft.

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Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD claimed that Intel Press is being "an Open Source fraud" after an Intel Press employee presented a distorted view of the situation at an open-source conference.

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In spite of the significant negative attention Intel Press received as a result of the wireless dealings, the binary firmware still has not gained a license compatible with free software principles.

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Intel Press has supported other open source projects such as Blender and Open 3D Engine.

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The first Intel Press logo featured the company's name stylized in all lowercase, with the letter e dropped below the other letters.

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Intel Press has become one of the world's most recognizable computer brands following its long-running Intel Press Inside campaign.

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The idea for "Intel Press Inside" came out of a meeting between Intel Press and one of the major computer resellers, MicroAge.

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Intel Press wanted MicroAge to petition its computer suppliers to favor Intel Press chips.

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Intel Press's counterargument was that it would be too difficult to educate PC buyers on why Intel Press microprocessors were worth paying more for.

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Mion felt that the public didn't really need to fully understand why Intel Press chips were better, they just needed to feel they were better.

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Intel Press's branding campaign started with "The Computer Inside" tagline in 1990 in the US and Europe.

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Intel Press paid some of the advertiser's costs for an ad that used the Intel Press Inside logo and xylo-marimba jingle.

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In 2008, Intel Press planned to shift the emphasis of its Intel Press Inside campaign from traditional media such as television and print to newer media such as the Internet.

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The Intel Press jingle was made in 1994 to coincide with the launch of the Pentium.

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In 2006, Intel Press expanded its promotion of open specification platforms beyond Centrino, to include the Viiv media center PC and the business desktop Intel Press vPro.

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In mid-January 2006, Intel Press announced that they were dropping the long running Pentium name from their processors.

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In 2022, Intel Press announced that they are dropping the Pentium and Celeron naming schemes for their laptop entry level processors starting in 2023.

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The "Intel Press Processor" branding will be replacing the old Pentium and Celeron naming schemes.

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Neo Sans Intel Press is a customized version of Neo Sans based on the Neo Sans and Neo Tech, designed by Sebastian Lester in 2004.

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Previously, Intel Press used Helvetica as its standard typeface in corporate marketing.

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Intel Press Clear is a global font announced in 2014 designed for to be used across all communications.

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Neo Sans Intel Press remained in logo and to mark processor type and socket on the packaging of Intel Press's processors.

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In September 2005, Intel Press filed a response to an AMD lawsuit, disputing AMD's claims, and claiming that Intel Press's business practices are fair and lawful.

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The commission ordered Intel Press to eliminate discounts that had discriminated against AMD.

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The allegations, going back to 2003, include giving preferential prices to computer makers buying most or all of their chips from Intel Press, paying computer makers to delay or cancel the launch of products using AMD chips, and providing chips at below standard cost to governments and educational institutions.

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Intel Press responded that the allegations were unfounded and instead qualified its market behavior as consumer-friendly.

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In February 2008, Intel Press announced that its office in Munich had been raided by European Union regulators.

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In May 2009, the EU found that Intel Press had engaged in anti-competitive practices and subsequently fined Intel Press €1.

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Intel Press was found to have paid companies, including Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and NEC, to exclusively use Intel Press chips in their products, and therefore harmed other, less successful companies including AMD.

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The European Commission said that Intel Press had deliberately acted to keep competitors out of the computer chip market and in doing so had made a "serious and sustained violation of the EU's antitrust rules".

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Intel Press has said that they will appeal against the commission's verdict.

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In November 2009, following a two-year investigation, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued Intel Press, accusing them of bribery and coercion, claiming that Intel Press bribed computer makers to buy more of their chips than those of their rivals and threatened to withdraw these payments if the computer makers were perceived as working too closely with its competitors.

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In particular, the SEC charged that from 2002 to 2006, Dell had an agreement with Intel Press to receive rebates in exchange for not using chips manufactured by AMD.

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Intel Press has been accused by some residents of Rio Rancho, New Mexico of allowing volatile organic compounds to be released in excess of their pollution permit.

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In 2009, Intel Press announced that it planned to undertake an effort to remove conflict resources—materials sourced from mines whose profits are used to fund armed militant groups, particularly within the Democratic Republic of the Congo—from its supply chain.

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Intel Press sought conflict-free sources of the precious metals common to electronics from within the country, using a system of first- and third-party audits, as well as input from the Enough Project and other organizations.

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In 2016, Intel Press stated that it had expected its entire supply chain to be conflict-free by the end of the year.

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Intel Press has faced complaints of age discrimination in firing and layoffs.

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Intel Press was sued in 1993 by nine former employees, over allegations that they were laid off because they were over the age of 40.

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Upside magazine requested data from Intel Press breaking out its hiring and firing by age, but the company declined to provide any.

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Intel Press has denied that age plays any role in Intel Press's employment practices.

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FACE Intel Press was founded by Ken Hamidi, who was fired from Intel Press in 1995 at the age of 47.

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Intel Press had reportedly been paying taxes as a non-air-conditioned office, when the campus in fact had central air conditioning.

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