IBM used the Intel 8-bit chip 8088 processor when it created the PC in the 1980s, and then moved to Intel's 16-bit 8086. The company's name comes from shortening the term integrated electronics.Īlthough the company created its first CPU in 1971, Intel's primary business was static random access memory ( SRAM) and dynamic random access memory ( DRAM) chips. Intel was founded in 1968 by a group of semiconductor engineers from Fairchild Semiconductor, led by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce. Intel also offers graphics processing units ( GPUs), networking accelerators, and communications and security products. The company is best known for CPUs based on its x86 architecture, which was created in the 1980s and has been continuously modified, revised and modernized.
is the world's largest manufacturer of central processing units and semiconductors.
