Cooper Hewitt says...
Founded in July of 1968 by former Fairchild Semiconductor employees Robert Noyce (a physicist and co-inventor of the integrated circuit) and Gordon Moore (a chemist) under the executive leadership of Andrew Grove, Intel, stylized as ‘intel,’ has become the largest semiconductor chip maker in the world. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California’s Silicon Valley, the company supplies processors for computer system makers such as Apple, Lenovo, Hewlett Packard and Dell, in addition to producing numerous other communication- and computer-related devices. During the 1960s, Intel enjoyed a prominent position as the dominant supplier of processors for personal computers. The brand name is a portmanteau of ‘integrated’ and ‘electronics’ and has become internationally recognized as a standard in microprocessing and random access memory storage, having created the first commercial microprocessor chip in 1971. The introduction of the 8080 microprocessor of 1974 is widely considered the first general purpose microprocessor and powered early essays in personal computer design. In 1980, Intel partnered with Digital Equipment Corporation and Xerox to promote the Ethernet project, a network system that allowed computers to communicate with one another. Today, Intel continues to be recognized for the increasing power and diminishing size of its devices, particularly in the rapidly expanding realm of wearable technology.
