Incorporated: 1968 as N M ElectronicsNAIC: 334413 Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing; 334210 Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing
Intel Corporation is the largest
semiconductor manufacturer in the world, with 11 fabrication facilities and six assembly and test facilities around the world. Intel has changed the global
marketplace dramatically since it was founded in 1968; the company invented the
microprocessor, the "computer on a chip" that made possible the first handheld calculators and personal computers (PCs). By the early 21st century, Intel's microprocessors were found in approximately 80 percent of PCs worldwide. The company's product line also includes chipsets and motherboards; flash memory used in wireless communications and other applications; networking devices and equipment for accessing the Internet, local area networks, and home networks; and embedded control microchips used in networking products, laser printers, factory automation instruments, cellular phone base stations, and other applications. Intel has remained competitive through a combination of clever marketing, well-supported research and development, superior manufacturing
proficiency, a vital corporate culture,
prowess in legal matters, and an ongoing alliance with software giant Microsoft Corporation often referred to as "
Wintel."
Intel's founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, were among the eight founders of Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, established in 1957. While at Fairchild, Noyce and Moore invented the integrated circuit; in 1968, they decided to form their own company. They were soon joined by Andrew Grove, a Hungarian refugee who had arrived in the United States in 1956 and joined Fairchild in 1963. Grove would remain president and CEO of Intel into the 1990s.
To obtain start-up capital, Noyce and Moore approached Arthur Rock, a venture
capitalist, with a one-page business plan simply stating their intention of developing large-scale integrated circuits. Rock, who had helped start Fairchild Semiconductor, as well as Teledyne and Scientific Data Systems, had confidence in Noyce and Moore and provided $3 million in capital. The company was incorporated on July 18, 1968, as N M Electronics (the letters standing for Noyce Moore), but quickly changed its name to Intel, formed from the first syllables of "integrated electronics." Intel gathered another $2 million in capital before going public in 1971.
Noyce and Moore's
scanty business proposal belied a clear plan to produce large-scale integrated (LSI) semiconductor memories. At that time,
semiconductor memories were ten times more expensive than standard magnetic core memories. Costs were falling, however, and Intel's founders surmised that with the greater speed and efficiency of LSI technology, semiconductors would soon replace magnetic cores. Within a few months of its
startup, Intel produced the 3101
Schottky bipolar memory, a high-speed random access memory (RAM) chip. The 3101 proved popular enough to sustain the company until the 1101, a metal
oxide semiconductor (MOS) chip, was perfected and introduced in 1969. The following year, Intel introduced the 1103, a 1-kilobyte (K) dynamic RAM, or DRAM, which was the first chip large enough to store a significant amount of information. With the 1103, Intel finally had a chip that really did begin to replace magnetic cores; DRAMs eventually proved
indispensable to the personal computer.
The company's most dramatic impact on the computer industry involved its 1971 introduction of the 4004, the world's first microprocessor. Like many of Intel's innovations, the microprocessor was a byproduct of efforts to develop another technology. When a Japanese calculator manufacturer, Busicom, asked Intel to design cost-effective chips for a series of calculators, Intel engineer Ted Hoff was assigned to the project; during his search for such a design, Hoff conceived a plan for a central processing unit (CPU) on one chip. The 4004, which crammed 2,300 transistors onto a one-eighth- by one-sixth-inch chip, had the power of the old 3,000-cubic-foot
ENIAC computer, which depended on 38,000 vacuum tubes.
Although Intel initially focused on the microprocessor as a computer enhancement that would allow users to add more memory to their units, the microprocessor's great potential--for everything from calculators to cash registers and traffic lights--soon became clear. The applications were facilitated by Intel's introduction of the 8008, an 8-bit microprocessor developed along with the 4004 but oriented toward data and character (rather than arithmetic) manipulation. The 8080, introduced in 1974, was the first truly general purpose microprocessor. For $360, Intel sold a whole computer on one chip, while conventional computers sold for thousands of dollars. The response was overwhelming. The 8080 soon became the industry standard and Intel the industry leader in the 8-bit market.
In response to ensuing competition in the manufacture of 8-bit microprocessors, Intel introduced the 8085, a faster chip with more functions. The company was also developing two more advanced projects, the 32-bit 432 and the 16-bit 8086. The 8086 was introduced in 1978 but took two years to achieve wide use, and, during this time,
Motorola, Inc. produced a competing chip (the 68000) that seemed to be selling faster. Intel responded with a massive sales effort to establish its architecture as the standard. When International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) chose the 8008, the 8086's 8-bit cousin, for its personal computer in 1980, Intel seemed to have beat out the competition.
During the 1970s, Intel had also developed the
erasable programmable read-only memory (
EPROM), another revolutionary but
unintended research byproduct. Intel physicist Dov Frohman was working on the reliability problems of the silicon gate used in the MOS process when he realized that the
disconnected, or "floating," gates that were causing
malfunctions could be used to create a chip that was erasable and reprogrammable. Since conventional ROM chips had to be permanently programmed during manufacture, any change required the manufacture of a whole new chip. With EPROM, however, Intel could offer customers chips that could be erased and reprogrammed with
ultraviolet light and electricity. At its introduction in 1971, EPROM was a novelty without much of a market. But the microprocessor, invented at the same time, created a demand for memory; the EPROM offered memory that could be conveniently used to test microprocessors.
Another major development at Intel during this time was that of peripheral controller chips. Streamlined for specific tasks and stripped of
unneeded functions, peripheral chips could greatly increase a computer's abilities without raising software development costs. One of Intel's most important developments in peripherals was the
coprocessor, first introduced in 1980. Coprocessor chips were an extension of the CPU that could handle specific computer-intensive tasks more efficiently than the CPU itself. Once again, innovation kept Intel ahead of its competition.
Intel's rapid growth, from the 12 employees at its founding in 1968 to 15,000 in 1980, demanded a careful approach to corporate culture. Noyce, Moore, and Grove, who remembered their frustration with Fairchild's
bureaucratic bottlenecks, found that defining a
workable management style was important. Informal weekly lunches with employees kept communication lines open while the company was small, but that system had become
unwieldy. Thus, the founders installed a carefully outlined program emphasizing openness, decision-making on the lowest levels, discipline, and problem solving rather than paper shuffling. Moreover, the company's top executives eschewed such luxuries as limousines, expense account lunches, and private parking spaces to establish a sense of
teamwork with their subordinates.
In an interview with the Harvard Business Review in 1980, Noyce remarked on the company's hiring policy, stating, "we expect people to work hard. We expect them to be here when they are committed to be here; we measure absolutely everything that we can in terms of performance." Employee incentives included options on Intel stock, and technological breakthroughs were celebrated with custom-bottled champagne--"Vintage Intel" marked the first $250 million quarter, in 1983--the year sales reached $1
billion for the first time.
During the 1974
recession, Intel was forced to lay off 30 percent of its employees, and morale declined substantially as a result. Thus, in 1981, when economic struggles again surfaced, instead of laying off more employees, Intel accelerated new product development with the "125 Percent Solution," which asked
exempt employees to work two extra hours per day, without pay, for six months. A brief surge in sales the following year did not last, and, again, instead of more layoffs, Intel imposed pay cuts of up to 10 percent. Such measures were not popular among all its
workforce, but, by June 1983, all cuts had been restored and
retroactive raises had been made. Moreover, in December 1982, IBM paid $250 million for a 12 percent share of Intel, giving the company not only a strong capital boost, but also strong ties to the
undisputed industry leader. IBM would eventually increase its stake to 20 percent before selling its Intel stock in 1987.
During the early 1980s, Intel began to slip in some of its markets. Fierce competition in DRAMs, static RAMs, and EPROMs left Intel concentrating on microprocessors. While competitors claimed that Intel simply gave away its DRAM market, Moore told Business Week in 1988 that the company deliberately focused on microprocessors as the least cyclical field in which to operate. Customer service, an area Intel had been able to overlook for years as it dominated its markets, became more important as highly efficient Japanese and other increasingly innovative competitors challenged Intel's position. In addition, Intel's manufacturing record, strained in years past by undercapacity, needed fixing. Fab 7, Intel's seventh wafer-fabrication plant, opened in 1983 only to face two years of troubled operations before reaching full capacity. Between 1984 and 1988, Intel closed eight old plants, and in 1988 it spent some $450 million on new technology to bring its manufacturing capacity into line with its developmental prowess.
Despite these retrenchments, the company continued to excel in the microprocessor market. In 1982 Intel introduced its 80286 microprocessor, the chip that quickly came to dominate the upper-end PC market, when IBM came out with the 286-powered PC/AT. The 286 was followed in 1985 by Intel's 80386 chip, popularized in 1987 by the Compaq DESKPRO 386, and which, despite bugs when it first came out, became one of the most popular chips on the market. While the 286 brought to the personal computer a speed and power that gave larger computers their first real challenge, the 386 offered even greater speed and power together with the ability to run more than one program at a time. The 386 featured 32-bit architecture and 275,000 transistors, more than twice the number of the 286.
In 1989 Intel introduced the 80486, a chip Business Week heralded as "a
veritable mainframe-on-a-chip." The 486 included 1.2 million transistors and the first built-in
math coprocessor, and was 50 times faster than the 4004, the first microprocessor. In designing the i486, Intel resisted an industry trend toward
RISC (reduced instruction-set computing), a chip design that eliminated rarely used instructions in order to gain speed. Intel argued that what RISC chips gained in speed they lost in flexibility and that, moreover, RISC chips were not compatible with software already on the market, which Intel felt would secure the 486's position. A new chip, the 64-bit i860 announced in early 1989, however, did make use of RISC technology to offer what Intel claimed would be a "
supercomputer on a chip."
Also in 1989, a major lawsuit that Intel had filed against
NEC Corporation five years before was decided. Intel had claimed that NEC violated its copyright on the
microcode, or embedded software instructions, of Intel's 8086 and 8088 chips. Although Intel had licensed NEC to produce the microcode, NEC had subsequently designed a similar chip of its own. At issue was whether microcode could be copyrighted. The court ruled that it could but that NEC had not violated any copyright in the case at hand. The suit made public some issues surrounding Intel's reputation. Some rivals and consumers, for example, claimed that Intel used its size and power to
repress competition through such tactics as filing "meritless" lawsuits and tying microprocessor sales to other chips. Other observers, however, praised Intel's protection of its intellectual property and, subsequently, its profits. The Federal Trade Commission conducted a two-year investigation of Intel's practices and did not recommend criminal charges against the company, but two rival companies, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and Cyrix Corporation, filed
antitrust lawsuits against Intel in 1993.
Intel's annual net income topped $1 billion for the first time in 1992, following a very successful, brand-building marketing campaign. Intel ads aggressively sought to
bolster consumer interest in and demand for computers that featured "Intel Inside." By late 1993, the company's brand equity totaled $17.8 billion, more than three times its 1992 sales. Also during this time, Intel began to branch out from chipmaking. In 1992 the company's Intel Products Group introduced network, communications, and personal
conferencing products for retail sale directly to PC users.
In 1993 Intel released its fifth-generation Pentium processor, a trademarked chip capable of executing over 100 million instructions per second (MIPS) and supporting, for example, real-time video communication. The Pentium processor, with its 3.1 million transistors, was up to five times more powerful than the 33-megahertz Intel 486
DX microprocessor (and 1,500 times the speed of the 4004), but, in an unusual marketing
maneuver, the company suggested that "all but the most demanding users" would seek out PCs powered by the previous chip. The Pentium's reputation was initially sullied by the revelation of an embedded mathematical flaw, but Intel moved quickly to fix the problem.
The company enjoyed a dramatic 50 percent revenue increase in 1993, reaching $8.78 billion from $5.84 billion in 1992. Moreover, Intel's net income leapt 115 percent to $2.3 billion, repudiating Wall Street's worries that competition had squeezed profit margins. While Intel faced strong competition both from chip makers such as Motorola's
PowerPC and former partner IBM, its place at the leading edge of technology was undisputed.
A key initiative that kept Intel ahead of its competitors was the company's move beyond chip design into computer design. With the advent of the Pentium, Intel began designing chipsets and motherboards, the latter being the PC circuit board that combined a microprocessor and a
chipset into the basic subsystem of a PC. With the company now selling the guts of a PC, dozens of computer manufacturers began making and selling Pentium-based machines.
In the mid-1990s, as sales of PCs accelerated and multimedia and the Internet were beginning to emerge, Intel continued developing ever more powerful microprocessors. In 1995 the
Pentium Pro hit the market sporting 5.5 million transistors and capable of performing up to 300 MIPS. Intel next added
MMX technology to its existing line of Pentium processors. MMX consisted of a new set of instructions that was designed specifically to improve the multimedia performance of personal computers. Fueled by exploding demand, revenues hit $20.85 billion by 1996, while net income soared to $5.16 billion.
At this point Intel was continuing its longtime strategy of designing new, more powerful chips for the top end of the market while allowing previous-generation microprocessors to migrate down to the lower segments of the market. With the introduction of the
Pentium II in May 1997, however, the company adopted a new strategy of developing a range of microprocessors for every segment of the computing market. The Pentium II, with 7.5 transistors, debuted with a top-end model that clocked at 300
megahertz. Originally designed for high-end desktop PCs, the Pentium II was soon adapted for use in
notebook and laptop computers. With the following year came the launch of the
Celeron processor, which was designed specifically for the value PC desktop sector, a rapidly growing segment of the market ever since the early 1997 debut of a sub-$1,000 PC from
Compaq. Also in 1998 Intel for the first time designed a microprocessor, the Pentium II Xeon, especially for
midrange and higher-end servers and workstations. At the same time Intel was moving into another burgeoning sector, that of embedded control chips for networking and other applications, such as digital set-top boxes.
Meanwhile Intel settled a dispute with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) over the development of the Pentium chip by acquiring DEC's semiconductor operations. In May 1997 Craig R. Barrett was named president of Intel, having joined the company in 1974, serving as head of manufacturing starting in 1985, and being named chief operating officer in 1993. Grove remained chairman and CEO for one year, whereupon Barrett was named president and CEO, with Grove retaining the chairmanship. In early 1999 Intel reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission on an antitrust suit, thereby avoiding the
protracted litigation and negative publicity that
beset its Wintel partner, Microsoft, in the late 1990s. Reflecting the increasing importance of technology to the U.S. economy, Intel was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average in November 1999.
During the late 1990s Intel made several strategic acquisitions that rapidly gave the company a significant presence in areas outside its microprocessor core: wireless communications products, such as flash memory for mobile phones and two-way pagers; networking building blocks, such as hubs, switches, and routers; and embedded control chips for laser printers, storage media, and automotive systems. Intel also entered the market for e-commerce services, rapidly building up the largest business-to-business e-commerce site in the world, with $1 billion per month in online sales by mid-1999. The company was not neglecting its core, however; in 1999 Intel had its largest microprocessor launch ever with the simultaneous introduction of 15
Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon processors.
The new product launches continued in 2000, but they were accompanied by an
uncharacteristic series of blunders. In February arch-rival
AMD had bested Intel by releasing the first 1-gigahertz chip, the
Athlon, which had the added benefit of being cheaper than the Pentium III. Intel responded by speeding a 1.13-gigahertz version of the Pentium III to market, but the processor simply did not work right and thousands had to be recalled. Further embarrassment came when the firm had to recall a million motherboards because of a
faulty chip. Intel had also underestimated growth in PC sales, leaving its production capacity insufficient to meet the demands of computer makers, and it also cancelled plans to develop a low-end microprocessor called
Timna that had been slated for budget PCs. Intel continued to encounter problems developing the complex
Itanium 64-bit processor, the company's first, which was specifically designed, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard Company, to meet the needs of powerful Internet servers. The long-delayed Itanium, seven years in the making at a cost of $2 billion, finally reached the market in 2001, receiving a rather
muted initial reception. (The Itanium line was later shifted from servers to high-end computers.) On the bright side, Intel successfully released the Pentium 4 in November 2000. This processor included 42 million transistors and ran at an initial speed of 1.5
gigahertz, enabling Intel to regain the lead in the ongoing chip-speed battle with AMD. Despite all of the year's travails, Intel reached new heights in financial performance, earning $10.54 billion in profits on revenues of $33.73 billion.
The bursting of the Internet bubble posed new challenges for Intel in 2001 as consumer spending on computers dropped off and corporate information technology managers pulled back as well. The fierce competition from AMD prompted Intel to initiate a brutal price war, which cut both revenues and profits, and it also slashed Intel's worldwide share of the microprocessor market to below 80 percent, compared to the 86.7 percent figure from 1998. In 2001 Barrett began jettisoning many of the new ventures and acquisitions that were part of the late 1990s
diversification drive, in a renewed refocusing on microprocessors. Revenues for 2001 fell 21 percent to $26.54 billion--the first such drop since the mid-1980s tech recession--while profits plummeted 87 percent to $1.29 billion. Early the following year,
Paul Otellini was named president and chief operating officer, with Barrett remaining CEO. Otellini had served in a variety of marketing and management positions since joining the company in 1974, most recently serving as head of Intel's core operating unit, the architecture group, which was responsible for developing microprocessors, chipsets, and motherboards for desktop and notebook computers and for servers.
As the technology
downturn continued in 2002, Intel cut thousands of workers from its
payroll to reduce costs. Behind the scenes, an important change occurred in the company's approach to designing chips. Since the 1980s Intel had maintained its leading position by creating ever-faster processors. But by the early 2000s speed was becoming less important to the majority of PC users, who were mainly employing their desktop PCs and laptops to surf the Internet and run basic programs, such as word processors. Intel decided to deemphasize speed in favor of designing chips to better fit the way people were actually using their computers and to do so using technology "platforms," which were composed of several chips rather than a single microprocessor. The first fruit of this
endeavor was
Centrino, launched in early 2003. Centrino was a combination of chips specifically designed for portable computers. It included the
Pentium M microprocessor, which while not sporting top speeds consumed much less power than the typical chip, providing for longer battery life (and reduced energy consumption when installed in desktop computers). The Pentium M was also smaller in size, making it less expensive to manufacture. Centrino also included a supporting chipset to further improve battery life and graphics performance as well as a wireless radio chip for connecting to the burgeoning number of wireless (Wi-Fi) networks being installed at corporate offices, in retail outlets, and within homes.
Buoyed by the success of Centrino, Intel's revenues hit a new high in 2004, $34.21 billion, despite a number of manufacturing glitches, product delays, and schedule changes during the year. Intel abandoned its efforts to develop television display chips and also scrapped plans to introduce the first 4-gigahertz processor because of problems with
overheating. The profits of $7.52 billion were an impressive 33 percent higher than the previous year but below the peak reached in 2000.
In May 2005 Otellini became only the fifth CEO in Intel history and the first non-engineer. At the same time, Barrett succeeded Grove as chairman. One of the key legacies of Barrett's tenure was surely the huge
outlay of capital, as much as $32 billion over six years, expended to rebuild Intel's manufacturing base and enabling the firm to increase capacity to meet chip demand and add capabilities to the products. At the same time, Otellini was credited with leading the push toward platforms, and this approach was
institutionalized in a 2005 reorganization that divided the company into five market-focused groups: corporate computing, the digital home, mobile computing, healthcare, and channels (PCs for small manufacturers). Otellini was also shifting the product development effort toward so-called dual-core technology featuring two computing engines on a single piece of silicon. In this realm, Intel was competing fiercely with, and playing
catchup to, AMD, which released its first dual-core chips for PCs in 2005, whereas Intel was aiming to produce three lines of dual-core processors, for notebooks, desktops, and servers, during the second half of 2006. Like the Centrino technology, dual-core chips were being developed to extend battery life in laptops and cut power costs for desktop PCs and servers. They were also intended to improve performance while avoiding the problems with overheating that had plagued some of the fastest single-processor models. Intel was simultaneously beginning work on
multicore platforms with three or more "brains." Two other developments from mid-2005 held potential long-term significance. AMD filed a wide-ranging antitrust suit in U.S. federal court accusing Intel of using illegal inducements and
coercion to
discourage computer makers from buying AMD's computer chips. This action followed an antitrust ruling against Intel in Japan, earlier in the year. In the meantime, in what seemed a significant coup, Intel reached an agreement with Apple Computer, Inc. whereby Apple would begin shifting its Macintosh computers from IBM's PowerPC chips to Intel chips.
Principal Subsidiaries
Components Intel de
Costa Rica, S.A.; Intel Americas, Inc.; Intel Asia Finance Ltd. (Cayman Islands); Intel Capital Corporation (Cayman Islands); Intel Copenhagen ApS (Denmark); Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd.; Intel Electronics Finance Limited (Cayman Islands); Intel Electronics Ltd. (Israel); Intel Europe, Inc.; Intel International; Intel International B.V. (Netherlands); Intel Ireland Limited (Cayman Islands); Intel Israel (74) Limited; Intel Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan); Intel Malaysia Sdn. Berhad; Intel Massachusetts, Inc.; Intel Overseas G.C. Ltd. (Cayman Islands); Intel Overseas Funding Corporation (Cayman Islands); Intel Phils. Holding Corporation; Intel Products (M) Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia); Intel Puerto Rico, Ltd. (Cayman Islands); Intel Semiconductor Limited; Intel Technology Finance Limited; Intel Technology Phils., Inc. (Philippines); Intel Technology Sdn. Berhad (Malaysia); Mission College Investments Ltd. (Cayman Islands).
Principal Operating Units
Mobility Group; Digital Enterprise Group; Digital Home Group; Digital Health Group; Channel Platforms Group.
Principal Competitors
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Texas Instruments Incorporated; International Business Machines Corporation; STMicroelectronics N.V.
Further Reading
Brandt, Richard, Otis Port, and Robert D. Hof, "Intel: The Next Revolution," Business Week, September 26, 1988, p. 74.
Bylinsky, Gene, "Intel's Biggest Shrinking Job Yet," Fortune, May 3, 1982, pp. 250+.
Clark, Don, "AMD Files Broad Suit Against Intel," Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2005, p. A3.
------, "Change of Pace: Big Bet Behind Intel Comeback; In Chips, Speed Isn't Everything," Wall Street Journal, November 18, 2003, p. A1.
------, "Intel's New CEO Signals Shift for Chip Maker," Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2004, p. A6.
Clark, Don, and Gary McWilliams, "Intel Bets Big on Wireless Chips," Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2003, p. A3.
Clark, Don, Nick Wingfield, and William M. Bulkeley, "Apple Is Poised to Shift to Intel As Chip Supplier," Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2005, p. A1.
Clark, Tim, "Inside Intel's Marketing Machine," Business Marketing, October 1992, pp. 14-19.
Corcoran, Elizabeth, "Reinventing Intel," Forbes, May 3, 1999, pp. 154-59.
Intel: 35 Years of Innovation, Santa Clara: Intel Corporation, 2003.
Edwards, Cliff, "Getting Intel Back on the Inside Track," Business Week, November 29, 2004, p. 39.
------, "Intel: What Is CEO Craig Barrett Up To?," Business Week, March 8, 2004, pp. 56-62, 64.
------, "Shaking Up Intel's Insides," Business Week, January 31, 2005, p. 35.
Edwards, Cliff, and Ira Sager, "Intel: Can CEO Craig Barrett Reverse the Slide?," Business Week, October 15, 2001, pp. 80-86, 88, 90.
Edwards, Cliff, and Olga Karif, "This Is Not the Intel We All Know," Business Week, August 16, 2004, p. 32.
Garland, Susan B., and Andy Reinhardt, "Making Antitrust Fit High Tech," Business Week, March 22, 1999, p. 34.
Gottlieb, Carrie, "Intel's Plan for Staying on Top," Fortune, March 27, 1989, pp. 98+.
Grove, Andrew S., Swimming Across: A Memoir, New York: Warner, 2001, 290 p.
Heller, Robert, Andrew Grove, New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2001, 112 p.
Hof, Robert D., Larry Armstrong, and Gary McWilliams, "Intel Unbound," Business Week, October 9, 1995, pp. 148+.
"Is the Semiconductor Boom Too Much of a Good Thing for Intel?," Business Week, April 23, 1984, pp. 114+.
Jackson, Tim, Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company, New York: Dutton, 1997, 424 p.
Kirkpatrick, David, "Intel Goes for Broke," Fortune, May 16, 1994, pp. 62-66, 68.
------, "Intel's Amazing Profit Machine," Fortune, February 17, 1997, pp. 60+.
------, "Mr. Grove Goes to China," Fortune, August 17, 1998, pp. 154-61.
Lashinsky, Adam, "Is This the Right Man for Intel?," Fortune, April 18, 2005, pp. 110-12+.
Palmer, Jay, "Zero Hour," Barron's, October 4, 1999, pp. 33-34, 36.
Reinhardt, Andy, "Intel Inside Out: After a Year of Bloopers, Can the Chipmaker Get Its House in Order?," Business Week, December 4, 2000, pp. 116-17, 120.
------, "The New Intel: Craig Barrett Is Leading the Chip Giant into Riskier Terrain," Business Week, March 13, 2000, pp. 110+.
------, "Who Says Intel's Chips Are Down?," Business Week, December 7, 1998, p. 103.
Reinhardt, Andy, Ira Sager, and Peter Burrows, "Intel: Can Andy Grove Keep Profits Up in an Era of Cheap PCs?," Business Week, December 22, 1997, pp. 71-74, 76-77.
A Revolution in Progress: A History of Intel to Date, Santa Clara, Calif.: Intel Corporation, 1984.
Ristelhueber, Robert, "Intel: The Company People Love to Hate," Electronic Business Buyer, September 1993, pp. 58-67.
Roth, Daniel, "Craig Barrett Inside," Fortune, December 18, 2000, pp. 246+.
Schlender, Brent, "Intel's $10 Billion Gamble," Fortune, November 11, 2002, pp. 90-94, 98, 100, 102.
------, "Intel Unleashes Its Inner Attila," Fortune, October 15, 2001, pp. 168-70+.
Wilson, John W., "Intel Wakes Up to a Whole New Marketplace in Chips," Business Week, September 2, 1985, pp. 73+.
Yu, Albert, Creating the Digital Future: The Secrets of Consistent Innovation at Intel, New York: Free Press, 1998, 214 p.
— April Dougal Gasbarre; Updated by David E. Salamie
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Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, inventors of the integrated circuit, to manufacture large-scale integrated (LSI) circuits. In the early 1970s it introduced the most powerful semiconductor chips then known, which soon replaced the magnetic cores previously used in computer memories.
IBM chose to use Intel's 8088
microprocessor (introduced 1978) in its first
personal computer (the IBM PC), and Intel microprocessors became standard for all PC-type machines. Although other manufacturers eventually developed Intel-compatible microprocessors, Intel continued to power more than 75% of PCs at the beginning of the 21st century.
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