• If you open your PC or laptop, chances are you will find my guest's fingerprints all over it. For 30 years Craig Barrett has helped Intel build its worldwide chip-building network -- from being a manager to vice-president to president to CEO to chairman. Craig Barrett, one of the most iconic CEOs of our time, of any time, welcome to Walk the Talk.

It's a pleasure to be here.

• You are a travelling chairman, you go around the world. But this is unusual even by your standards -- to do Tindivanam in Tamil Nadu, and then Bangaldesh, and again Delhi.

Well, we usually go one country per day, but this time we are oscillating between Bangladesh and India. And India is a big country. I think it deserves at least a couple of days.

• So what were you doing in Tindivanam? You were working on a scheme for school healthcare?

We were working on both education and school healthcare. Also on how to use information technology to deliver better medical care to people in rural environments.

• But what is the larger purpose behind Intel doing it? Last year, I think Intel signed an agreement with the Tamil Nadu government to help 2,000 schools in the state use information technology. What is Intel doing? What's a chipmaker doing in education?

Education has been the sidelight for Intel for several decades. It's an extracurricular activity; it's something we do beside our normal business. The founders -- Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, Andy Grove -- were very interested in education. I have tried to carry that along.

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