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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Fiering says the original design manufacturers (ODMs) in places like Taiwan (the companies who actually make the things designed in places like Cupertino, Calif.) have long been gearing up for tablets and touch interfaces.

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