China is the hotspot right now, obviously for its enormous market opportunity. If you're a technology company and you're not thinking about China, then you're already behind.

The collaborative efforts of Dai Nippon Printing Company and Intel will provide the opportunity to develop mask technology that will be critical as we continue to track Moore's Law. We have been successful in the past working with DNP, and this reaffirms the commitment of both companies to develop leading-edge mask technology for future generations of semiconductor lithography.

Without the right technology and strategies in place, any company or organization can be at serious risk.

Emerging countries don't have the same requirement for advanced functionality and therefore go for the baseline stuff with a low entry point. That's a concern for Microsoft, and is why it is launching 'Windows light' and 'Office light' versions for countries such as Thailand.

It's better to fix the glitches before the release than after.

This group feels that they are particularly hard hit and that they don't have much leverage.