Intel facts for kids

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Intel Corporation

Headquarters in Santa Clara, California
Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: INTC 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	Santa Clara, California , U.S.
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	US$55.4 billion (2015)
Operating income	US$14.0 billion (2015)
Net income	US$11.4 billion (2015)
Total assets	US$103.065 billion (2015)
Total equity	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.

Processors

• Atom
• Celeron
• Pentium
• Intel Core
• Intel Core 2
• Intel Core i3
• Intel Core i5
• Intel Core i7

Images for kids

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  Federico Faggin, designer of the Intel 4004

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  The die from an Intel 8742, an 8-bit microcontroller that includes a CPU running at 12 MHz, 128 bytes of RAM, 2048 bytes of EPROM, and I/O in the same chip

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  An Intel mSATA SSD

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  Paul Otellini, Craig Barrett and Sean Maloney in 2006

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  Intel microprocessor facility in Costa Rica was responsible in 2006 for 20% of Costa Rican exports and 4.9% of the country's GDP.

See also

In Spanish: Intel para niños