Intel Company History

This company was founded in 1968 in Santa Clara, California by Gordon E.More, he is an expert on chemical and Robert Noyce who is a physicist. collaboration of two human sophistication presents extraordinary production. Moore is also one famous person in the semiconductor industry thanks to his theory known as Moore's law (Moore's Law) that essentially discussed the human ability to develop the transistor density doubling every two years. The third person accompanying Intel since the days pioneered in the 1980s to the industrial growth in the 1990's that Andy Grove (a chemical engineer). He can be referred to as Steve Ballmer was Intel, a key figure and leader of the company's strategic business Intel. Since the late 1990's until the time this article was created, the Intel processor was asked as the most successful and
largest manufacturers in the world.

                   But in 2007, the company's performance seems a little slump Intel Intel as the title of the famous sometimes considered too aggressive and often take a controversial policy in an effort to maintain its market position. This is evident from the decline in Intel's brand value rankings of the top 100 most powerful brands in the world value Milward Brown Optimor versions, from ranks 15 and then dropped to rank 25.

Origin of the name of Intel

             The first time the company was founded Intel, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce originally proposed combined their names to be used as company name: Moore Noyce. However, they rush out the attack using the name because the name sounds like Moore Noyce as "more noise" (more noisy), a bad title for a class of electronic devices. They then used the name NM Electronics, which was retained as the name of the company within a period of nearly a year, then Moore and Noyce decided to use the designation INTegrated ELectronics or shortened to "Intel" as the name of the company. Whatever power, it turns out the name of Intel when it was already used as the name of the hotel chain in the U.S. at that time. Because it was already kesengsem as Intel, Moore and Noyce finally buy Intel's brand of hospitality companies to avoid lawsuits.

Evolution of Company

                Intel grew after passing through several different phases. In the early days of its establishment, Intel only known for its ability to make semiconductors, the main product is a chip Static Random Access Memory (SRAM). Intel's business began to grow during the 1970's in which the period of time, Intel has developed a manufacturing process and expand its production lines. However, Intel's main product remains dominated by the peripheral-memory peripherals.

               After Intel created the first microprocessor in 1971 and one of the first microcomputers in 1972, Intel's business is dominated by the product chip Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM). But the rivalry between Intel's semiconductor products to the Japanese-made semiconductors Intel dramatically lowered revenue in 1983. It was only in the late 1980s, the IBM PC made the sudden success makes Intel CEO Andy Grove, give the command of the whole unit of this company to focus more on making microprocessors, Grove also change the fundamental aspects of the business model of this microprocessor . In the late 1980s, the measures taken by the CEO of Intel is apparently proved successful. At that time, Intel started launching many new microprocessor designs and automatically trigger the development of the PC. During this period Intel started successfully grown into a major hardware manufacturer with the largest profit in the PC industry.

               After 2000, market demand for high-end microprocessors from Intel's competitors began to decline and target low-end processor market and mid-end, this is the period in which Intel's dominance began to decrease. In the early 2000's, when it's Intel CEO, Craig Barrett, Intel tried to diversify our business and expand its production line of products other than semiconductors, but few new products that eventually reap success. 

                  In 2005, CEO Paul Otellini reorganized the company Intel to refocus on its core business on the processor and chipset platform (enterprise, digital home, digital health, and mobility) in which the business was started with the recruitment of more than 20,000 new employees. In September 2006, claiming that Intel's profit continues to decline, the company announced a restructuring of 10 500 people by firing workers, or about 10% of Intel's total labor force in July 2006. One of Intel's research lab located at Cambridge University and then closed at the end of 2006.

                   On June 27, 2006, sales of Intel's XScale assets was announced. Intel agreed to sell the XScale processor business to Marvell Technology Group with a transaction value of $ 600 million. The action taken is intended to facilitate Intel Intel to focus more on core x86 and server businesses. XScale processor acquisition process has been completed on 9 November 2006.

                In the past quarter century in recent years, dozens of leaders from various technology companies in the U.S. there are two Chief Executive Officer (CEO) whose name is quite famous, charismatic personality and unique style of leadership-pinannya studied and emulated a lot of people, and have a background in engineering education chemical, not a Master of Business Administration (MBA). One of the two men was CEO Andrew S. Grove, former CEO of chip manufacturer and supplier of the world's largest microprocessor, Intel Corp..

                Andrew Grove was born Andras Grof named on 2 September 1936 in Budapest, Hungary. Since childhood, Andrew had a difficult life. He almost died at the age of 4 years. At that time, in Budapest outbreak of scarlet fever epidemics. Fortunately Andrew survived, although his eardrums torn from an infection in the ear so that he lost his hearing. Escape from the threat of death because of illness, new dangers arise. Nazi German army launched its World War II finally succeeded in occupying Budapest in March 1944. Because it has always been in hiding with her mother and also because it changed its name to Malesevics Andras, Andrew managed to escape from the pursuit and capture of the German army. But out of the woods on this one, another one appears. This time the Soviet troops entered Hungary. Faced with the danger that would not go over, young Andrew finally decided to run away from his homeland. With his best friends at school they both take the train heading west to reach the border of Austria. After a long journey, exhausting and full of dangers they end up in Austria.

            From here to find a way for Andrew to the U.S. and finally arrived in the city of New York ridden refugee ship. He lived in one-room apartment in Brooklyn with his aunt and uncle who had already left Hungary. In the city of New York here, Andrew continued his education was interrupted and a lecture at the City College of New York (CCNY), which at that time the college for free (free academy) but has a high reputation as Oxfordnya those immigrants. At CCNY, Andrew majored in Chemical Engineering and in 1960 graduated with Magna Cum Laude and also managed to occupy the first rank among his friends who graduated at that time.

                  Andrew who has been married to his wife Eva two years before he graduated S1, then set off to continue his education at the University of California at Berkeley. He was steeped in the field of fluid dynamics studies. Again he was the star here. Having managed to get a PhD, Dr. Grove received job offers from various quarters, including from Bell Laboratories. But in the end he decided to work at Fairchild Semiconductors, a new engineering firm that has a brilliant engineers. As early from college, Dr. Grove was about to plunge into the world of industry, unlike most sekuliahnya counterparts. "I wanted to do something with my science," he said again.

                   In the early decades of the 1960s, the computer industry is undergoing a revolution. Computers at that time was fast enough to do the calculations, but the designers still wanted the computer to make the computer work faster. Only, they are confronted with a difficult problem. To do calculations faster, more electrons must flow and more heat energy generated by the vacuum tube (ancient transistor design using vacuum tubes as the on-off switches). Logical solution is to replace vacuum tubes with an electronic device that has the same role, namely to store electrical charge and can control the flow of electrons.

Gordon Moore, one of the engineers who worked at Fairchild believes that one way to store electrical charge it is to create an integrated circuit (IC) is made using metal, oxide and silicon. This tool is called MOS transistor. Silicon, as a semiconductor, having electrical properties that support for these demanding applications. But MOS unstable. First day of work, Dr. Grove was asked to study the electrical properties of MOS. Dr. Grove gave a full report on this matter as to impress his superiors. Not only that. With two other colleagues, Dr. Grove managed to find the cause of the instability of MOS: impurity consisting of sodium. This discovery is one of the fundamental discoveries in the field of materials science and Dr. Grove and his colleagues received an award from the company.

                 In 1968, Robert Noyce, working colleague Dr. Grove others decided to leave Fairchild. He was bored with Fairchild for a variety of things. He invited Moore to establish a new company. Moore is from the beginning has been like a mentor to the Grove finally told him at a conference and Grove immediately decided to participate. Intel, the company was established in July 1968.

                  At first, Intel (short for Integrated Electronics) produce memory chips for computers. But the business gradually declined and eventually the founders of Intel was forced to decide the new strategy. Moore suggesting Intel to begin producing microprocessor chips based on the analysis of the silicon chip. Analysis is so well known as Moore's Law: the number of transistors on a microprocessor chip to be doubled and the price dropped to half every 18 months.

                  Dr career. Grove continues to climb at Intel. In 1979 he became president of the company and in 1987 finally held the top position as CEO. Ten years later in 1997, he was appointed president. For a year he was concurrently the two positions; in 1998 he resigned his CEO though continue to serve as president of the company.

                 During his leadership Intel Corp's advanced so rapidly. Its success was recognized by many professional organizations. Awards such as the IEEE Engineering Leadership Recognition Award (1987), Technology Leader of the Year Award from Industry Week (1997) and CEO of the Year Award from CEO Magazine is a multiple of a series of awards she won. When Dr. Grove was chosen as Time's Man of the Year in 1997, he instantly became a public figure known to many people