Intel Corporation, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the leading American manufacturer and supplier of microprocessors and integrated circuits. It also produces network and conferencing products, computer modules and boards, memory chips, servers, and parallel supercomputers. The company is most famous for pioneering the development of the microprocessor, which has made the personal computer possible. Currently, the majority of the world's personal computers uses Intel microprocessors. Intel has at various times had up to 95% of the personal computer chip market.

Intel was founded in 1968 when engineers Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce left the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation of Mountain View, California, to form their own company. While working at Fairchild the pair had invented the integrated circuit, a critical component to the microprocessor. Their new company, called N M Electronics (after Noyce and Moore), was specifically formed to manufacture large-scale integrated (LSI) circuits. Andrew Grove joined Noyce and Moore...