Intel Corporation
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Intel was founded in 1968 by two of the 'Traitorous Eight' — Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, who had left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor, then left Fairchild to found Intel. Their first products were memory chips, but the 1971 invention of the microprocessor — the Intel 4004, a chip that put a computer's central processing unit on a single slice of silicon — changed the course of human technology. The x86 architecture that followed has powered virtually every PC ever built.
Intel's modern business spans three fronts: client computing (the Core processors inside most of the world's PCs and laptops), data center and AI (the Xeon server processors that run cloud data centers, now facing intense competition from GPU-based AI accelerators), and foundry services (manufacturing chips for other companies, a new bet against TSMC). Its factories in the US, Ireland, Israel, and Malaysia are among the most advanced manufacturing facilities on earth.
With about 125,000 employees and annual revenue near US$54 billion, Intel is in the middle of the most difficult transition in its history: losing its manufacturing lead to TSMC, missing the AI boom, and now betting its future on catching up in process technology and reclaiming a role in AI silicon. For the tech industry, Intel remains the symbol of American semiconductor manufacturing — and its comeback attempt is being watched as a national project.
