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Here's a key piece of intel for you: Intel is by far the foremost semiconductor maker in the world. Although occasional strategic and technical errors have cropped up, Intel remains famous for its superior execution in all parts of its business, and shows no signs of falling from its lofty perch atop the chip industry. Though best known for its Pentium and Celeron microprocessors -- about four-fifths of new PCs have them -- Intel also makes flash memories (where it has lost its former #1 spot to Samsung) and embedded semiconductors for the communications and industrial equipment markets. Most computer makers use Intel processors; PC giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard are the company's largest customers.