Customers consist of original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and distributors who serve numerous end-markets, including communications, computing, industrial, consumer electronics, automotive, and education.

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Intel sells its processors to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Toshiba and Sony, and individuals building custom PCs.

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They are ODMs, Original Design Manufacturers which means they design the whole package for Western giants and often put their IP into the hardware so as to avoid copycats.

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