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Intel Corporation

Type Public (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335)
Founded 1968 1
Headquarters Santa Clara, California
United States
Key people Paul S. Otellini, CEO
Craig Barrett, Chairman
Industry Semiconductors
Products Microprocessors
Flash memory
Motherboard Chipsets
Network Interface Card
Bluetooth Chipsets
Revenue ▲ $38.3 billion USD (2007)[1][2]
Operating income ▲ $8.2 billion USD (2007)
Net income ▲ $7.0 billion USD (2007)
Employees 86,300 (2007)[3]
Slogan Leap Ahead
Website www.intel.com
1Incorporated in California in 1968, reincorporated in Delaware in 1989.[4]
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC; SEHK: 4335) is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation and based in Santa Clara, California, USA, Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network cards and ICs, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors, and other devices related to communications and computing. Founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. Originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, Intel's successful "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentium processor household names.

Intel was an early developer of SRAM and DRAM memory chips, and this represented the majority of its business until...