Aerospace & Defense

The Aerospace & Defense industry consists of companies engaged in the production of spacecrafts and commercial military and private aircrafts. The industry also includes manufacturers of military equipment, such as tanks and related vehicles, bombs, missiles, associated navigational and guidance systems, artillery, ammunition and other related weaponry. The Aerospace & Defense industry excludes hunting and recreational guns, rifles and ammunition, classified in Leisure Products; and commercial services relating to airports, classified in Airport Services.

Agriculture

Establishments primarily engaged in growing crops, raising animals, harvesting timber, and harvesting fish and other animals from a farm, ranch, or their natural habitats. The establishments in this sector are often described as farms, ranches, dairies, greenhouses, nurseries, orchards, or hatcheries.

Apparel

The retailing process is the final step in the distribution of merchandise; retailers are, therefore, organized to sell merchandise in small quantities to the general public. This sector comprises two main types of retailers: store and nonstore retailers. The apparel industry consists of designers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers dealing in clothing and fashion accessories targeted at different consumer segments.

Art/Entertainment/Media

Establishments that operate facilities or provide services to meet varied cultural, entertainment, and recreational interests of their patrons. Establishments that create content or acquire the right to distribute content and subsequently broadcast the content. The industry groups (Radio and Television Broadcasting and Cable and Other Subscription Programming) are based on differences in the methods of communication and the nature of services provided.

Banking/Financial/Wealth Management

The Monetary Authorities-Central Bank subsector groups establishments that engage in performing central banking functions, such as issuing currency, managing the Nation's money supply and international reserves, holding deposits that represent the reserves of other banks and other central banks, and acting as a fiscal agent for the central government. This major group includes establishments engaged in the underwriting, purchase, sale, or brokerage of securities and other financial contracts on their own account or for the account of others; and exchanges, exchangeclearinghouses, and other services allied with the exchange of securities and commodities.

Biotechnology and Pharma

Establishments primarily engaged in conducting biotechnology research and experimental development. Biotechnology research and experimental development involves the study of the use of microorganisms and cellular and biomolecular processes to develop or alter living or non-living materials. This research and development in biotechnology may result in development of new biotechnology processes or in prototypes of new or genetically-altered products that may be reproduced, utilized, or implemented by various industries.

Business Consulting

Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing operating counsel and assistance to managements of private, nonprofit, and public organizations. These establishments generally perform a variety of activities, such as strategic and organizational planning; financial planning and budgeting; marketing objectives and policies; information systems planning, evaluation and selection; human resource policies and practices planning; and production scheduling and control planning. These establishments are characterized by the breadth and scope of the problems they address.

Chemicals

This major group includes establishments producing basic chemicals, and establishments manufacturing products by predominantly chemical processes.

Commercial Aviation

Commercial aviation is the part of civil aviation (both general aviation and scheduled airline services) that involves operating aircraft for hire to transport passengers or cargo.

Communications

This major group includes establishments furnishing point-to-point communications services, whether intended to be received aurally or visually; and radio and television broadcasting. This major group also includes establishments primarily engaged in providing paging and beeper services and those engaged in leasing telephone lines or other methods of telephone transmission, such as optical fiber lines and microwave or satellite facilities, and reselling the use of such methods to others.

Construction

The Construction sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in the construction of buildings or engineering projects (e.g., highways and utility systems). Establishments primarily engaged in the preparation of sites for new construction and establishments primarily engaged in subdividing land for sale as building sites also are included in this sector.

Education

This major group includes establishments providing instruction for primary and secondary education. (Spoken as "k twelve", "k through twelve", or "k to twelve") is a term for the sum of primary and secondary education. It is used in the United States, Canada, South Korea, Turkey, the Philippines, Egypt, Australia, India and Iran. P–12 is also occasionally used in Australia. The expression is a shortening of kindergarten (K) for 4- to 6-year-olds through twelfth grade (12) for 17- to 19-year-olds.

Energy/Oil & Gas

This major group includes establishments primarily engaged in:

(1) producing crude petroleum and natural gas

(2) extracting oil from oil sands and oil shale

(3) producing natural gasoline and cycle condensate

(4) producing gas and hydrocarbon liquids from coal at the mine site

Types of activities included are exploration, drilling, oil and gas well operation and maintenance, the operation of natural gasoline and cycle plants, and the gasification, liquefaction, and pyrolysis of coal at the mine site. This major group also includes such basic activities as emulsion breaking and desilting of crude petroleum in the preparation of oil and gas customarily done at the field site.

Engineering

Establishments primarily engaged in providing professional engineering services. Establishments primarily providing and supervising their own engineering staff on temporary contract to other firms are included in this industry.

Environmental

The Administration of Environmental Quality Programs subsector groups government establishments primarily engaged in the administration of environmental quality. Environmental quality is a general term which can refer to varied characteristics that relate to the natural environment as well as the built environment, such as air and water purity or pollution, noise and the potential effects which such characteristics may have on physical and mental health.

Food Services

This major group includes establishments manufacturing or processing foods and beverages for human consumption, and certain related products, such as manufactured ice, chewing gum, vegetable and animal fats and oils, and prepared feeds for animals and fowls. Products described as dietetic are classified in the same manner as non-dietetic products (e.g., as candy, canned fruits, cookies).

Government

Body of individuals at the federal level that sets and administers public policy, exercises executive and political power through customs, institutions, and laws within a country.

Healthcare/Well-Being

Establishments providing health care and social assistance for individuals. The sector includes both health care and social assistance because it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the boundaries of these two activities. The industries in this sector are arranged on a continuum starting with those establishments providing medical care exclusively, continuing with those providing health care and social assistance, and finally finishing with those providing only social assistance. The services provided by establishments in this sector are delivered by trained professionals. All industries in the sector share this commonality of process, namely, labor inputs of health practitioners or social workers with the requisite expertise. Many of the industries in the sector are defined based on the educational degree held by the practitioners included in the industry.

Hospitality

This major group includes commercial and noncommercial establishments engaged in furnishing lodging, or lodging and meals, and camping space and camping facilities.

Industrial/Manufacturing/Machinery

The manufacturing division includes establishments engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products. These establishments are usually described as plants, factories, or mills and characteristically use power driven machines and materials handling equipment. Industries in the Machinery Manufacturing subsector create end products that apply mechanical force, for example, the application of gears and levers, to perform work.

Insurance

This major group includes agents and brokers dealing in insurance, and also organizations offering services to insurance companies and to policy holders.

Legal

Offers legal advice or legal services.

Mining

Extraction of minerals occurring naturally: solids, such as coal and ores.

Not for Profit

Establishments providing social services and rehabilitation services to those persons with social or personal problems requiring special services and to the handicapped and the disadvantaged. Also included are organizations soliciting funds to be used directly for these and related services.

Advocacy Organizations

Charitable Organizations and Foundations

Professional Associations

Religious Organizations

Social and Membership Organizations

Trade Groups and Labor Unions

Real Estate

Real Estate Agents & Managers, Dealers, Land Sub dividers & Developers and Real Estate Investment Trusts and Building Operators

Retail

Establishments engaged in retailing merchandise, generally without transformation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise.

Service Provider

Organization, business or individual that offers services (Technology Service Provider, ISP) for a payment.

Telecommunications

Establishments that provide telecommunications and the services related to that activity (e.g., telephony, including voice over internet protocol (voip); cable and satellite television distribution services; internet access; telecommunications reselling services). The telecommunications subsector is primarily engaged in operating, and/or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound, and video.

Utilities

The Utilities sector comprises establishments engaged in the provision of the following utility services: electric power, natural gas, steam supply, water supply, and sewage removal. Within this sector, the specific activities associated with the utility services provided vary by utility: electric power includes generation, transmission, and distribution; natural gas includes distribution; steam supply includes provision and/or distribution; water supply includes treatment and distribution; and sewage removal includes collection, treatment, and disposal of waste through sewer systems and sewage treatment facilities.

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Technologies Of Interest (Intel Website)

Artificial Intelligence

A computer system that has human-like intelligent behavior. It requires the ability for systems to compute on massive data sets real time.

Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR)

Augmented Reality (AR) superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view. Virtual Reality (VR) is computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image that can be interacted with in a seemingly real way by a user wearing special electronic equipment.

Autonomous Driving

Autonomous driving covers the sensing, compute, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and communications advancements changing the experience and business of driving.

Big Data Analytics & Infrastructure

Big Data Analytics involves analyzing large sets of data in attempt to find patterns and trends.

Boards

Boards are sheets of insulating material used to mount chips

Business Devices & Computing

Business devices and computing can be associated to a unit(s) of hardware, outside or inside the case for the essential computer that can provide input to the computer or receive output or both. Examples: keyboards, mouses, display monitors

Communications Infrastructure

Communications Infrastructure include communications network solutions that are fast, scalable, and cost efficient. This includes building a wireless network that is secure and accessible.

Connected Services Gateway

The Connected Services Gateway puts new and existing services under one umbrella using a broadband-enabled, wireless gateway device

Data Center

Data centers are comprised of several computing devices that store information and transmit it to customers remotely.

Digitial Signage

Digital signage solutions are technologies such as LCD, LED, and Projection that are used to display digital images, videos streaming media, information, and other content.

Embedded

Embedded devices contain Intel chips. The chips power these devices. TVs and wearables, for example.

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

Programmable logic chipsets with Gigabit speed IO that allow you to create any functionality with the ability to reconfigure the functionality at any time.

Gaming

“Gamers” play games on consoles or virtually, alone or individually. The process is referred to as Gaming.

High Performance Computing

High Performance Computing (HPC) is the practice of combining computer power in a way that provides much higher performance than a typical desktop computer would in order to solve large problems in science, engineering or business

Internet of Things

The Internet of Things movement is connecting ordinary devices to make them smart. These devices are able to send and receive data.

In-vehicle infotainment

Intel In-vehicle infotainment systems are placed into vehicles, typically cars, and provide entertainment and information services. Some key features include Bluetooth connectivity, managing audio, and GPS systems.

Machine to Machine

Machine to Machine refers to the process when two devices communicate directly to each other. The sharing of information can be physical, typically through wires, or wireless.

Media Phone

Media phones are the next generation of phones that include enhanced capabilities such as internet, built in cameras, web capabilities, and other features that are popular today.

Media Services

Media Services are characterized by what they provide to customers. Examples include high speed internet and television.

Networking

A network is a group of computers that are connected together.

Power Solutions

Programmable power regulators that provide multiple voltage and current level supplies for use in designing custom electronic boards

Print Imaging

Print imaging refers to the equipment used to produce photocopies and printed materials.

Processors & Chipsets

A chipset is a group of electronic components in an integrated circuit that manages the data flow between the processor, memory and peripherals.

Programmable Acceleration Cards

Plug-in server cards or modules that have predefined interfaces to support accelerated workloads available through the ecosystem or custom developed.

Routers & Switching

Routers and switches are computer networking devices that enables one or more computers to be connected to other computers, networked devices or to other networks.

SDI-Private Cloud

Cloud & SDI (Software Defined Infrastructure) are characterized by computing with virtual infrastructure. Cloud environments typically involve data centers while SDI is a virtual infrastructure powered entirely by software.

Security

Security is the process of defending information from unauthorized services. This can be physically or through technology means such as software.

Small Business

Generally, companies with fewer than 500 employees are considered a small business.

Smart Building

Smart Buildings are buildings with technology components that can work together. For example, HVAC systems, electrical systems, and appliances can all work together in a smart, connected building.

Smart City

Smart Cities are cities that have connected technology components. Adding connectivity to services such as transportation, water supply, waste management and power facilities improves the city’s efficiency.

Smart Home

Smart Home is a residence that incorporates advanced automation systems to provide sophisticated monitoring and control over the building's functions.

Smart Factory

Smart Factories include advances in manufacturing, also known as smart manufacturing, that incorporate heavy automation into factory processes. This allows for a streamlined and efficient manufacturing process.

Software

Software describes computer programs. Software is virtual lines of code used in computer programs. There are many types of software that are used in every facet of technology.

Solid State Drive

Solid State Drives (SSD) are used for storage purposes. SSDs retain storage using flash memory and contain no internal moving parts.

Storage

Storage is the place where data is held and can be accessed.

Thin Client

A thin client is a low-cost computing device in a client server environment. The main function is to process keyboard input and screen output and accesses most or all application programs and data from a central server via a network.

Wearables

Wearables are defined as wearable gadgets with connectivity components. Sensors on the wearable record and provide data to the wearer. Popular wearables include fitness trackers, smart watches, and jewelry.

Wireless Infrastructure

Wireless Solutions increase productivity by allowing data to be accessed from anywhere and anytime. Without the need for physical machinery, data is available at a faster rate.

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