Intel

The Intel Business is a global corporation and technology firm based in Santa Clara, California, in the United States of America. It is the biggest semiconductor chip producer in the world based on revenue, and it is one of the creators of the x86 family of instruction sets. These instruction sets are the ones that are found in the majority of personal computers (PCs). In spite of being a Delaware corporation, Intel has maintained its position as the 45th biggest company in terms of total revenue on the Fortune 500 list of the most successful American businesses from 2007 through the 2016 fiscal year.

The likes of Acer, Lenovo, HP, and Dell are just some of the computer system makers that Intel provides with microprocessors. In addition to manufacturing motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors, and other devices relevant to communications and computers, Intel also produces various types of electronic products.

Integrated and Electronics Corporation (Intel) was established on July 18, 1968, by semiconductor industry pioneers Gordon Moore (of Moore's law) and Robert Noyce (1927–1990). Andrew Grove is identified with the company as the executive leader and the visionary behind Intel. The development of Silicon Valley becoming a hub for high technology was significantly aided by Intel. Noyce was an integral part of the team that developed the integrated circuit (microchip). The bulk of Intel's business up until 1981 consisted on the production of SRAM and DRAM memory chips, both of which were pioneered by Intel. Although Intel developed the world's first commercial microprocessor chip in 1971, the company did not make this its core line of business until after the popularity of the personal computer (PC).

Throughout the 1990s, Intel made significant investments in the development of novel microprocessor architectures, which fueled the explosive expansion of the computer industry. During this time period, Intel became the preeminent supplier of microprocessors for personal computers (PCs), and it gained a reputation for using aggressive and anti-competitive strategies to defend its market position. These strategies were directed primarily against Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), but Intel also engaged in a power struggle with Microsoft to determine the overall course that the PC industry would take.

The Open Source Technology Center at Intel is responsible for running PowerTOP and LatencyTOP and provides assistance for a variety of other open-source projects, including Xen, Wayland, Mesa, and Threading Building Blocks (TBB).