Ever wonder where the parts inside your computer came from? Intel was formed in 1968 by founders Bill Noyce and Gordon Moore. This company has been providing computer manufacturers with internal parts for many years. Originally named NM Electronics, the company changed to Intel soon after forming.
The first 10 years of Intel's establishment proved to be very busy and eventful. Intels first product manufactured was the 3101 Schottky bi polar random access memory, along with the first ever, metal oxide semiconductor static RAM or otherwise known as 1101. Silicon chips were becoming very popular at this time, and Intel quickly became one of the leaders of manufacturing this product. Other products that Intel manufactured at this time were Integrated electronics, erasable ROM, global factories, expanding product lines, high level language developments for microprocessors, becoming part of one of the first PC's produced, "bunny suits", the 8080 microprocessor, and developing "bubble memory".
The second decade proved to be just as profitable as the first. Listed on the Fortune 500 list in 1980, Intel became a more powerful company after teaming up with DEC and Xerox to work on the Ethernet project. Perfect timing with the Local Area Networking becoming very popular leading Intel to a profitable account with IBM. Intels 286 chip soon found its way into many computer systems. They then improved on current microprocessors, making them preform faster with less power. By the end of the decade they had already improved the 286, renaming it 386 and entered into the flash memory market.
By 1990, Intel had been named the worlds largest supplier of semi conductors. It was then that Intel came up with their ever famous logo "Intel Inside". Moving along, they produced another version of their processor naming it 486. This was quickly replaced with another that was five times faster, called Pentium. This too was replaced in 1977 with Pentium II. Intel created a software program that allowed system managers a stream line approach for managing computer networks.
With the 40th anniversary of Moore's law, a law stating the number of transistors in a chip must increase every two years, the next decade provided several new products like Celeron processor, Pentium III and IV, wireless technology, hyper-threading technology, Itanium, Xeon, Centrino, Viiv, and Core 2 Duo processors. By 2006, Intel had revamped its whole company with new marketing strategies and a new logo, "Leap Ahead". This new logo summed up Intels new momentum for the future.
Today, Intel still remains strong, and has a part in most computer products. Personal computers, laptops, servers, workstations, Mac computers, and several varieties of processors for desktops and notebooks, are just some of the products that have Intel parts.