UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                                         
                                                         
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                                                         
                                                         
                                    FORM 8-K
                                                         
                                                         
                                 CURRENT REPORT
                         Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
                     of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
                                                         
                                                          
                        Date of Report: October 18, 2005
                        (Date of earliest event reported)
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                INTEL CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
                                                          
                                                          
          Delaware                   0-06217                 94-1672743
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         (State of                 (Commission             (IRS Employer
       incorporation)              File Number)          Identification No.)
                                                         


  2200 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, California        95054-1549
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        (Address of principal executive offices)             (Zip Code)


                                 (408) 765-8080
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              (Registrant's telephone number, including area code)


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Item 2.02      RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL CONDITION
                 
               Attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated by reference
               herein is financial information for Intel Corporation for the
               quarter ended October 1, 2005 and forward-looking statements
               relating to 2005 and the fourth quarter of 2005 as presented in a
               press release of October 18, 2005. The information in this report
               shall be deemed incorporated by reference into any registration
               statement heretofore or hereafter filed under the Securities Act
               of 1933, as amended, except to the extent that such information
               is superceded by information as of a subsequent date that is
               included in or incorporated by reference into such registration
               statement. The information in this report shall not be treated as
               filed for purposes of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
               amended.
                      
               In addition to presenting financial results calculated in
               accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles
               (GAAP), the company's earnings release contains a non-GAAP
               financial measure which excludes the effects of a legal
               settlement with MicroUnity, Inc. from the third quarter gross
               margin percentage. This non-GAAP financial measure should be
               considered in addition to, not as a substitute for or superior
               to, gross margin calculated in accordance with GAAP. In the
               earnings release, the company has provided a reconciliation of
               the non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable
               GAAP financial measure.

               The company's management uses this non-GAAP financial measure to
               evaluate the company's operating performance for the third
               quarter of 2005, and for budgeting and planning purposes, because
               the third quarter charge for the legal settlement primarily
               relates to prior periods. GAAP requires that the company include
               a charge in the third quarter results which relates to the prior
               use of the licenses being granted as part of the legal settlement
               in connection with sales of products in historical periods going
               back several years. Management also uses this non-GAAP financial
               measure in evaluating both the changes in third quarter operating
               results that are attributable to the company's on-going business
               operations and the change that is attributable to the legal
               settlement and was not anticipated at the time of the company's
               Mid-Quarter Business Update press release on September 8, 2005.
               The company believes this information is useful to investors for
               the same reasons it is useful to management.






                                   SIGNATURES
 
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 
                                                 INTEL CORPORATION
                                                 (Registrant)
 
 
Date: October 18, 2005                       By: /s/ Andy D. Bryant
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                                                 Andy D. Bryant
                                                 Executive Vice President,
                                                 Chief Financial Officer and
                                                 Principal Accounting Officer