Intel CEO: Smaller gadgets will expand market

Paul Otellini, President and CEO of Intel, gives an interview at The Associated Press, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 in New York. Otellini talked about moving in directions that are unusual for the 40-year-old company, including investing in wireless networks and relying on software that isn't from Microsoft. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

(AP) -- Intel Corp.'s push to create and boost new categories of small, cheap Internet-connected devices is taking the world's largest chip maker in some unusual directions. It's investing in wireless networks, or even buying them outright. It's relying on software that isn't from Microsoft. And it's looking at making processors cheaper and smaller rather than faster and faster.