Intel (INTC) will raise its quarterly dividend by 13.3 percent from $0.1125 to $0.1275 per share in the first quarter of 2008. The semiconductor company has paid consecutive quarterly dividends since 1992.

The next dividend is payable on March 1, 2008, to shareholders of record as of February 7, 2008. The ex-dividend date is February 5, 2008.

Intel Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells computer components and related products. Intel’s products include microprocessors, chipsets, embedded processors and microcontrollers, flash memory, graphic, network and communication, systems management software, conferencing, and digital imaging products.