The third generation Internet business will no longer be Web-centric but customer-centric. Intel hopes that companies will compete on the basis of how effectively they can integrate their information with that of customers and suppliers to create a positive business experience. Instead of vendors providing information on their Websites or servers, they will be expected to deliver a wide variety of data directly to their customers and suppliers' business systems and PC applications. Vendors will need to feed information to customers wherever and whenever they need it - on a laptop computer, a cell phone, from server to server. Third generation Internet business calls for intelligent, automated applications at both ends of the exchange and a software interface that allows applications to interact without human intervention. The new solution is totally different from the existing second generation Internet business. In the second generation Internet marketplace, customers can place orders and the company's webpresence accepts the order and submits them to an order processing system. Intel also continues its rapid rollout of microprocessor technology, doubling manpower approximately every 18 months. These processors provide the cost-effective computing power needed in the servers, PCs, information appliances and mobile devices that will power the third generation Internet business, an Intel official said.

Through Intel Capital, the company is also investing in technologies that encourage customer-centric solutions. Besides, the company is investing in and optimising crucial applications and middleware to run on the Intel Architecture and exploring rapid application assembly technologies to enable client-side solutions.