| INTEL and MSFT are GREAT buys at these prices--for long term investors.  They are the leaders in their field and INTEL is constantly introducing new products and doing joint ventures "Intel will creat the demand" Groves says. "If we don't make computers more useful, there won't be demand for the chips we'll be making in a few years. So we have to create users and uses for our microprocessors.  We get the market growth we earn--by our develpment efforts, our investments, and our proselytization. That's absolutely in our psyche now."   (see article in Feb. Fortune Magazine) Todays News:
 
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 Topic: Intel Corp
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 Headline: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) spells out strategy in "eyeball war'
 
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 LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuter) - Personal computers must provide
 stronger images if they are to win out against television in the
 battle for consumers' leisure time, Intel Corp president and CEO
 Andy Grove said on Thursday.
 "We have to combine interactivity with a superior viewer
 experience," Grove told reporters, outlining a strategy for what
 he called the "war for the eyeballs" with television.
 Grove said the key for the personal computer market was
 maintaining interactivity while improving the sound, images and
 three-dimensional animation offered to users.
 Interactive services such as home shopping and home banking
 are likely to be available through the digital decoders which
 BSkyB (ISEL:BSY) will introduce as part of its UK digital satellite
 television service later this year.
 But Intel executives said that the personal computer would
 continue to provide a much greater range of such services.
 Grove, who was speaking at a London conference, said that
 Intel, the world's top microprocessor manufacturer, would retain
 close links with software leaders Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT).
 He agreed with a recent U.S. study which described the
 companies as complementary and added: "we continue to build on
 that relationship."
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