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...undisclosed "charter" for his office that would consolidate his power as the DNI's main point of contact for the Pentagon's myriad intelligence agencies, which consume some 80% of the estimated $40 billion U.S. intelligence budget. The detailed charter appears to extend Cambone's authority over such Pentagon intel units as the eavesdropping National Security Agency and the satellite-snooping National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and potentially over the military's human-intelligence operations. According to a U.S. official, the charter also seems intended to boost the Pentagon at the expense of the CIA. Cambone "would like...
...charter and that it is doing some streamlining to help the DNI. "I think it's wise," Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John Warner says of the charter. "That's not going to limit [Negroponte] if he wants to call someone else" at one of the Pentagon's many intel shops...
...director Robert Mueller told Negroponte in a March 30 meeting arranged by the National Security Council that he is "open" to new ideas, a U.S. intelligence source tells TIME that Mueller has signaled his opposition to recent recommendations by a White House intelligence commission to bring more FBI intel functions under the DNI's purview. At least Negroponte, who is leaving his post as U.S. ambassador to Iraq for the DNI nomination, is used to being under fire. --By Timothy J. Burger and Brian Bennett
...Intel watchers are also nervous about how much the company is dependent on the rapidly maturing computer market. "They have to look beyond the PC," says Apjit Walia, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, who points out that Intel has fallen far behind its rivals in putting chips in cell phones and other wireless devices. "They have been talking the talk in communications; they haven't walked the walk." Indeed, Intel's communications division is still losing money, despite a $10 billion investment since 2001. Barrett and Otellini say the division is a work in progress...
Doomsday predictions, of course, have surrounded Intel for years: that the PC market is maturing, that the competition is cutting into Intel's lead. Yet the company has managed to keep growing. Despite AMD's recent resurgence, Intel's position in the PC-chip business remains unchallenged, with a market share of nearly 90%. It is also a step ahead thanks to Barrett's farsighted investments in manufacturing. While AMD has one major semiconductor plant, Intel has four placed strategically around the world, churning out chips 24 hours a day. And unlike PC manufacturers and retailers, who have to deal...