Intel
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| Type: | Public |
| Industry: | Semi-coductors |
| Founded: | July 18, 1968 |
| Founder(s): | Gordon Moore & Robert Noyce |
| Headquarters: | Santa Clara, California |
| Country: | USA |
| Employees: | 82,500 as of 2010[1] |
| Revenue: | $43.623 billion as of 2010 [2]] |
| Website: | www.intel.com |
| Key People | |
| Paul Otellini, President & CEO Jane Shaw, Chairman | |
Intel Corporation is the the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the inventor of the first microprocessor. Eighty percent of computer worldwide use Intel microchips. The company also designs and manufactures other advance computing and communications components including flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors, motherboard chip sets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits. Intel was established in 1968 and its headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California.[3]
Timeline
Below are significant events about Intel based on the company's corporate timeline.<ref>Intel Museum: Corporate Timeline<ref>
- 1968- Intel was originally founded by Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore as NM Electronics on July 16, 1968. NM Electronics was later change to Intel, which stands for "Integrated Electronics" after the corporation purchased the name rights of Intelco.Venture Capitalist Arthur Rock contributed and raised more than $2.5 million in capital for Intel and became Chairman of the company.
- 1969- Intel launched the first metal oxide semiconductor, MOS 1101 and the company logo.Its first product as introduce in the market,the 3101 Schottky bipolar random access memory (RAM).
- 1970-1103 DRAM was released as the standard compute memory for the computer industry.
- 1971, The company went public and offered its stock ast $23.50 per share.
- 1972- The first international manufacturing facility in Penang, Malaysia was opened and released the first 8-bit microprocessor 8008.
- 1973- The developed P/LM, the first high level language for microprocessors and introduced the intellec 4-40 software development tool
- 1974- Inroduces Intel 8080 microprocessor
- 1975- Intel 8080 was used in Altair 8800, one of the first personal computers developed. The company also launched ICE-80, the worlds first in circuit emulator and Intellec Model 800, a disk based system.
- 1976- ISBc 80/10, the first single board computer was launched and the fist microcontrollers, 8748 and 8048 featuring a combination of central processor with memory, peripherals, input-output functions on a single piece of silicon.
- 1977- the single chip codec (coder/decoder) 2910 was launched and became the standard for telecommunications industry.
- 1978- Intel 16-bit microprocessor was introduced
- 1979- Bob Noyce received National Medal of Science from President Jimmy Carter
- 1980- Intel 8051 and 8751 became world's best selling micro-controllers
- 1981- Intel 8088 microprocessor was chosen by IBM to power their personal computers
- 1983- Bob Noyce was inducted to the Inventors Hall of Fame and the company reached $1 billion annual revenue
- 1985- Intel entered the parallel super computer business, introduced iPSC/1 with multiple Intel 286 microprocessor capable of solving problems simultaneously.
- 1987- iPSC/2, the second generation super computer was released with Intel386 microprocessors and Intel 80387 math coprocessors
- 1988- Intel entered the flash memory business and introduced ETOX (Eprom Tunnel Oxide) technology
- 1989-