"Intel chairman said the press and the whole media seems preoccupied with the US recession...People are looking for any sign of bad news and then amplifying that...Intel could very well be talking itself into one..."

"...the companies will jointly invest 9 billion won in a broader state-supported R&D program...Because South Korea was a late starter in the memory chip field, local companies pay hundreds of millions of dollars every year to companies like Intel and Toshiba that hold patents to DRAMs and NAND Flash memory devices..."

The Olympics would help sales of TVs, computers and laptops...