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Intel Corporation ( NASDAQ: [http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol= }&selected= } }]) is a US-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. Intel also makes networking cards, motherboard chipsets, components, and other devices. Intel has advanced research projects in all aspects of semiconductor manufacturing, including MEMS.
Intel was founded in 1968 by Gordon E. Moore (a chemist and physicist) and Robert Noyce (a physicist). Its employee number four was Andy Grove (a chemical engineer), who ran the company more or less from his arrival in the 1960s through his retirement in the 1990s, and built it into one of the largest and most successful businesses in the world.
Moore and Noyce wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce'. But the name didn't sound good in electronics--noise being associated with bad interference. So they decided to call their company INTegrated ELectronics or "Intel" for short. However, Intel was already trademarked by a hotelHotel" is the letter H in the NATO phonetic alphabet See Hotel for the American television program that aired on ABC from 1983 until 1988. A hotel is an establishment that provides lodging on a short-term basis. Hotels often provide a number of additional chain so they had to buy the rights for that name at the beginning.
The company started as a memoryPrimary storage is a category of computer storage, often called main memory . Confusingly, the term primary storage has recently been used in a few contexts to refer to online storage ( hard disk), which is usually classified as secondary storage. Primary manufacturer before making the switch to microprocessors. Andrew Grove described this transition in the book Only the Paranoid Survive .
During the 1990s, Intel's Intel Architecture LabsIntel Architecture Labs also known as IAL is the development arm of Intel Corporation for the "Intel Architecture" segment of its business. In 2003 this was over 86% of Intel's total revenue and 138% of its total operating income. Originally IAL did resea (IAL) was responsible for many of the hardware innovations of the personal computerThe term personal computer or PC has three meanings: IBM's range of PCs that led to the use of the term see IBM PC. A generic term used to describe all microcomputers (mentioned here). A generic term sometimes used to describe a computer based on IBM's or, including the PCI Bus, the Universal Serial BusNote: USB may also mean upper sideband in radio. Universal Serial Bus USB provides a serial bus standard for connecting devices, usually to a computer, but it also is in use on other devices such as set-top boxes, game consoles and PDAs. Overview A USB sy (USB), and the now-dominant architecture for multi-processor servers. IAL's software efforts met with a more mixed fate; its video and graphics software was important in the development of software digital video, but later its efforts were largely overshadowed by competition from MicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation , headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, is the world's largest software company (with over 50,000 employees in various countries, as of May 2004). Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software. The competition between Intel and Microsoft was revealed in testimony at the Microsoft anti-trust trial.
Intel's dominance in the x86x86 or Intel 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. The architecture is called x86 because Intel used to give the earliest processors in this family numeric brand names ending in the sequence microprocessor market led to numerous charges of antitrust violations over the years, including FTC investigations in both the late 1980s and in 1999, and civil actions such as the 1997 suit by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and a patent suit by Intergraph . Intel's market dominance (at one time it controlled over 85% of the market for 32-bit PC microprocessors), combined with Intel's own hardball legal tactics (such as its infamous 338 patent suit versus PC manufacturers) made it an attractive target for litigation, but few of the lawsuits ever amounted to anything.
Currently, the only major competitor to Intel on the x86 processor market is Advanced Micro Devices, with which Intel has had full cross-licensing agreements since 1976: each partner can use the other's patented technological innovations without charge. Some smaller competitors such as Transmeta produce low-power processors for portable equipment.
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