Put your questions to Intel boss

Paul Otellini heads the world's leading chip maker

Paul Otellini, chief executive of Intel, is to answer your questions this week.

Intel is the world's dominant chip manufacturer in the desktop and laptop space and has big plans for mobile platforms.

The company recently rolled out its Atom processor, designed for use in portable computers, and the company believes the personal net will be unlocked through the use of mobile internet devices.

Intel is one of the world's leading researchers into future semiconductor technology, striving to keep Moore's Law alive.

Gordon Moore made the prediction that the number of transistors on a silicon chip would double every year for 10 years more than four decades ago, and Intel's entire business model is still driven by that law.

Mr Otellini described Intel's work to BBC News earlier this year: "Our business model is one of very high risk: We dig a very big hole in the ground, spend three billion dollars to build a factory in it, which takes three years, to produce technology we haven't invented yet, to run products we haven't designed yet, for markets which don't exist.

"We do that two or three times a year."

The company has also been in the headlines recently for different reasons.

It is facing investigation by the EU and in the US over allegations it abused its market position by selling its products below cost price and making cash payments to customers.

And at the start of the year the founder of the One Laptop Per Child project criticised Intel for undermining the project. Mr Otellini described those claims as "hogwash".

The BBC's Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones will be putting your questions to Mr Otellini on Friday in an interview to be shown on the BBC News website and elsewhere next week.

What do you want to ask one of the most influential men in technology? Perhaps you want to ask what the future holds for computing? How small can transistors get? Can Moore's Law be kept going? What laptop does he carry?

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