Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is an American semiconductor company founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. It designs and manufactures x86 processors — the Core line for PCs and Xeon for servers — along with chipsets, networking silicon, and AI accelerators, and it builds chips for outside customers through its Intel Foundry business. Its customers are PC and server makers, cloud providers, and enterprises.
Intel began as a memory maker, introduced the first commercial microprocessor, the 4004, in 1971, and its x86 architecture became the standard for personal computers after 📝IBM chose the 8088 for the 1981 IBM PC. Under Andy Grove it exited memory in the mid-1980s to focus on processors, and the 1991 "Intel Inside" campaign turned a component supplier into a consumer brand. It later missed the smartphone shift to Arm-based chips and lost manufacturing leadership to TSMC, while 📝AMD regained share in PCs and servers and 📝NVIDIA came to dominate AI accelerators. Pat Gelsinger's 2021 plan to rebuild leading-edge manufacturing and open Intel's fabs to other chip designers strained its finances; he departed in December 2024, Lip-Bu Tan became CEO in March 2025, and in August 2025 the U.S. government took a roughly 10% stake funded by previously awarded CHIPS Act grants.
Intel is one of the places our team has played, per the 📝One Inc About page — 📝Jim Goodman, our CTO advisor on 📝MythOS, worked there after creating 📝Ticketmaster.