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Intel Corporation
Public
Traded as NASDAQINTC
Dow Jones Industrial Average Component
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Industry Semiconductors
Founded July 18, 1968; 55 years ago (1968-07-18)
Founder Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, Andrew Grove
Headquarters ,
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Andy Bryant
(Chairman)
Brian Krzanich
(CEO)
Renée James
(President)
Products Bluetooth chipsets, flash memory, microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, network interface cards, mobile phones, solid state drives, central processing units
Revenue Decrease US$55.4 billion (2015)
Operating income
Decrease US$14.0 billion (2015)
Decrease US$11.4 billion (2015)
Total assets Decrease US$103.065 billion (2015)
Total equity Decrease US$61.085 billion (2015)
Number of employees
106,700 (2014)

Intel Corporation (also known as Intel, stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley. It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip makers based on revenue after being overtaken by Samsung, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs).

Intel supplies processors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.

Intel Corporation was founded on July 18, 1968. The company's name was conceived from the words integrated and electronics. The fact that "intel" is the term for intelligence information also made the name appropriate.

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