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Date added: 05/27/2011 PcWorld - Intel Shrugs at Tablets' Potential to Mess Up PC, Notebook Sales

Intel would happily make custom chips for Apple and other rivals, its CFO said Thursday, but hinted that the company doesn't believe the Apple iPad and similar tablets will make much of a dent in laptop sales and thus Intel's core processor business.

Instead, tablets are an "incremental device" with limited applications that appeal to upscale consumers, not the mass market or businesses, Stacy Smith said.

The chipmaker sees sales of notebook computers leaping ahead and with them, orders for full-powered processors.

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