New York - Going to the doctor could become a thing of the past for many people if the telemedicine plans by Intel and General Electric come to fruition.

The two giant US companies announced Thursday that they are teaming up to produce a line of medical devices, including one that would allow doctors to remotely monitor patients' health without them needing to visit the doctor's office.

For breach of agreement, NVIDIA Corp. has registered a countersuit against Intel Corporation in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware.

The action also seeks to end Intel's license to NVIDIA's graphic processing and 3D computing patents.

NVIDIA's countersuit was made in response to a suit filed by Intel during the last month in the Delaware court, aggressively claiming that the 4-year old chipset license deal does not expand to work on Intel's future generation processors - Nehalem aka Core i7 chips.

San Francisco  - Intel warned rival chip maker AMD Monday that its license to make personal-computer chips could be revoked because it spun out its manufacturing unit into a separate company.

Intel dominates the market for PC-compatible chips, which are based on the ubiquitous x86 architecture, first introduced by Intel in 1978 and later licensed to other companies.

Paris  - Intel, the giant US chip manufacturer, plans to pursue research efforts for future technology for high performance computers in France, in cooperation with the French Commission for Atomic Energy (CEA,) the French government said late Friday.

The University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin near Paris is to be involved in the project, the presidential offices said after a meeting between President Nicolas Sarkozy and Intel board chairman Craig Barrett.

San Francisco/Taipei - Intel Corporation and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp announced Monday a deal that will allow the Asian firm to produce Intel's smallest chips for use in mobile phones, netbook computers and other devices.

The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on technology, intellectual property and other issues related to Intel's Atom chip, the US company said at its Santa Clara, California headquarters.

Intel said the move would broaden the market for the chip and speed its use in various products.

San Francisco  - Computer chip-maker Intel announced plans to invest 7 billion dollars over the next two years to expand and transform three US manufacturing plants to produce the world's first 32-nanometer transistors.

The move to build the plants in Arizona, New Mexico and Oregon could see Intel gain a priceless advantage over smaller rivals like Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) which don't have the financial resources to invest in new fabrication facilities.