American semiconductor company co-founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce in 1968 — which built the dominant microprocessor franchise (x86 architecture) and ruled the CPU market for 50 years — before AMD and ARM challenged its desktop dominance and Nvidia's GPU became the critical AI computing chip.
Created the microprocessor and built the dominant CPU architecture (x86) — with Moore's Law as its product roadmap — making Intel's tick-tock development cadence the defining technology rhythm of the PC era and establishing semiconductor manufacturing as a strategic national asset.
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