Intel to Combine Communications Groups

Intel is combining its communications-related businesses into a single organization: the Intel Communications Group (ICG). Previously, the company's communications activities were divided between ICG and the Wireless Communications and Computing Group (WCCG). The newly combined organization will be headed by Sean Maloney, Intel executive vice president and general manager of ICG. ICG will assume WCCG's product portfolio in addition to its current focus on network processors, wireless LAN chipsets, gigabit networking solutions, network cards and related infrastructure technologies. WCCG products include processors based on Intel XScale technology along with chipsets, reference designs, software and other technologies built around the Intel Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA). Products also include Intel's flash memory business and digital signal processing activities.


"We continue to drive the convergence of computing and communications through our product lineup, and with this we see wireless local area networking and wide area cellular technologies coming together," said Intel CEO Craig Barrett. "Consolidation gives us better product planning and customer focus in these strategically critical areas going forward."


Separately, the company announced that Ron Smith, Intel senior vice president and general manager of Intel's WCCG unit, will retire early next year.
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