"We are pleased to join hands with Intel in making Internet search more convenient and fun for people on their wireless devices and home appliances," said Jerry Liu, CTO of the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, Baidu, as it was announced that Baidu has signed a memorandum of understanding with 2006-Intel China Ltd., a subsidiary of Intel, for cooperation in the development of Internet search and related applications in China.

''Baidu is the most frequently used search engine in China with an enormous user base. Its high traffic volume requires the highest standard of performance and stability in its server platform. Intel is pleased to work together with Baidu to provide optimized search performance and exciting search experience to end users,'' said Thomas M. Kilroy, Vice President of Intel Corporation and General Manager of Digital Enterprise Group,

Intel is also Baidu's backend server platform provider.

''With regard to server platform," Kilroy added, "80% of the current enterprise servers are all based on Intel Itanium 2 processors or Intel Xeon processors. The cost- effective and innovative server platform of Intel will surely provide powerful backend support for hundreds of million users of Baidu.''

According to the memorandum of understanding, the two parties will cooperate in advancing Internet search applications for laptops, handsets and PC in the digital home environment, coupling Intel's server platform with Baidu's backend search systems to achieve optimized performance and operational stability.

The two parties will rely on their respective strengths in technology to develop optimized Baidu search applications for Intel platforms, and facilitate implementation on PC, laptops, handsets and home appliances.