- Intel as originally named \u2018Moore\nNoyse<\/strong>\u2019 after its founders, but since that sounded like \u2018More noise,\u2019 they\nchanged it.<\/li>
- The name Intel is a combination\nof the initial parts of the word \u2018INTegrated ELectronics<\/strong>.\u2019<\/li>
- Intel made $2672<\/strong> in\nrevenue in its first year.<\/li>
- Intel was responsible for\ncreating the first silicon-based microprocessor, literally putting the silicon\nin Silicon Valley.<\/li>
- Gordon Moore, Intel\u2019s\nCo-Founder, coined the famous Moore’s Law<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Lesser Known Facts About Intel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Intel is a\nmassive company with a variety of products and services. These products have\nrightfully allowed it to hold the major stake in the processor market ever\nsince the company\u2019s creation. Let\u2019s take a look at the colorful history and the\nfascinating status of Intel in today\u2019s world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Intel has\nits own 10,000 square-foot museum: <\/strong>Since Intel has been around for half a\ncentury, it has a lot of history it wants to honor. To achieve this, they have\ncreated their own museum. This museum sprawls over 10,000 square feet and\ncontains some of the rarest artifacts from Intel\u2019s history. These artifacts\ninclude the first calculator made with an Intel chip, the original blueprint\nfor the 4004 processor that was created by Robert Noyce, and even the first\npatent ever filed by Intel. This museum is very famous, attracting around\n80,000 patrons every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Intel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Intel\nmanaged to control 2,066 drones for a synchronized light show, setting a world\nrecord: <\/strong>Intel\u2019s 50th<\/sup> anniversary was a huge milestone for the\ncompany, and indeed for the whole computing world. So, for the celebration,\nIntel decided to do something really impressive. They created a custom\nprocessor for drones and put them in a set of 2066 drones. These drones were\nused in the anniversary celebration and set a world record for the greatest\nnumber of synchronized drones flown together. These drones were used for\ncreating a lot of amazing visuals in the sky like the Earth, and Intel\u2019s old\nlogo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Guinness World Record)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. There are\n107,400 employees at Intel: <\/strong>Intel is a massive company, employing 107,400\npeople to work in its various departments. Most of these employees are in the\nUSA, where they are headquartered. There are nearly 51,000 employees in the\nUSA, mainly based in the giant Santa Clara campus. The second most employees\nare in the Asia Pacific region, mainly in China and India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Intel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. The sound\nlogo for Intel was the most recognized international sound logo in the world: <\/strong>Logos\nare essential for a brand\u2019s image. They help people identify the brand\ninstantly and help build consumer loyalty. These brands are usually just\nvisually appealing images that consist of the brands’ names. Some brands also\nchoose to create auditory logos, like Intel did when they launched their Intel\nInside campaign. This sound logo has become so ubiquitous with the brand and\ncomputers booting that it has become the most well-recognized audio logo in the\nworld. Some estimates even say that it has been played more than a billion\ntimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Business Insider)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. Intel\ndoesn\u2019t let any particles bigger than 0.5 microns in their cleanrooms: <\/strong>Intel\nmanufactures all its products in labs called \u2018Cleanrooms.\u2019 These cleanrooms are\ndesigned to have absolutely no particles in them that can interfere with the\nmanufacturing process. The air in this room s is completely changed four times\nevery minute. During this change, the air passes through various filters, which\nensure that no particles bigger than 0.5 micron as present in the air. For\nreference, a human hair is around 100 microns in thickness. These rooms are\naround 1,000 times cleaner than an average hospital room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Intel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. Intel\nindirectly created Apple: <\/strong>Intel\u2019s co-founder Robert Noyce believed in\nmentoring young inventors. He had a program where he took in promising\ninnovators and gave them the tools and knowledge they needed to realize their\nvision. One such individual he mentored was Steve Jobs, Apple\u2019s co-founder.\nWhen Jobs and Wozniak were struggling to create their first products, they were\nmentored by Noyce, who gave them access to Intel\u2019s labs. He also formed a close\npersonal bond with Steve Jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Computer Science Monitor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7. Intel was\nthe thirteenth most powerful brand in the world in 2019: <\/strong>Intel has always\nbeen at the forefront of technological innovation. Their branding can be found\non the majority of computers around the world. So, it should come as no\nsurprise that since 1984, they have been consistently ranked among the most\npowerful brands in the world. In 2019, Forbes ranked them thirteenth on the\nlist, ironically behind companies that use a huge number of Intel products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Forbes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8. Intel has\nmanaged to squeeze in over 8 billion transistors in a microprocessor: <\/strong>Transistors\nare what form the basis of any electrical circuit. They can conditionally allow\nor stop electrons from flowing through them, like a switch, which is what\nproduces a 1 or 0 binary response. These transistors started out as a 10 cm\nlong vacuum tube, but Intel has managed to shrink them down to an astounding 7\n\u2013 1 nm in length. This has allowed them to put up to 8 billion transistors on\none chip, with a density of 1.71 billion\/cm2<\/sup>. That means around 200\nmillion of these transistors can fit on the head of a pin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: techpowerup.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9. The\ntransistors being developed are so small that an electron can barely fit\ninside!: <\/strong>Moore\u2019s Law states that the number of transistors on a chip will\ndouble every two years. This trend has more or less been followed consistently\nsince the law was stated in 1975. However, the engineers of today are faced\nwith a unique problem. Electrons are very small indeed, and they behave as both\na wave and a particle. Without going too much in detail, this dual nature\nallows them to either stop at a barrier, or if the barrier is smaller in length\nthan their wavelength, bypass it. This bypassing due to wavelength is termed as\nquantum tunneling (This is a very barebones explanation). These wavelengths are\nof the order of 1-2 nanometers. This wouldn\u2019t be an issue, but the smallest\ntransistor available today is only 5nm in length! This means that soon, the\ntransistor size wouldn\u2019t be able to be reduced any further since they simply\nwouldn\u2019t be able to stop electrons from flowing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: IEEE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n10. Intel has\nshipped over 26 septillion transistors until December 2019: <\/strong>26 septillion\nmeans 26 followed by 21 zeros. That is a massive number of transistors! For\nreference, the human body only has about 37 trillion cells. So, the number of\ntransistors shipped is equal to the cells in the bodies of a billion times the\nhumans on the Earth. This is more than a trillion times the number of stars in\nthe galaxy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Forbes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
11. Intel\ncontrols nearly 77% of the consumer PC market, far ahead of its major\ncompetitor AMD: <\/strong>AMD and Intel may have been founded around the same time,\nbut Intel\u2019s focus on providing cheap and powerful processors has helped it\nalways be the largest shareholder in the consumer computer market. At its peak,\nIntel held nearly 89% of the market share. However, due to some recent delays\nin its manufacturing processes, AMD has been grabbing an increasing chunk of\nthe market, ending the 2018 fiscal year with a strong 20.32% of the total\nmarket share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Investopedia.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12. Intel\ndoesn\u2019t want to hold a majority share in consumer computer processors: <\/strong>Intel,\nor \u2018Chipzilla,\u2019 as it\u2019s affectionately called, has always maintained its image\nas holding the lion\u2019s share of the processor market. This, according to CEO Bob\nSwan, is an image Intel wants to distance itself from moving on. Bob claims\nthat this image has given rise to a culture of stagnation in the company, which\nin turn has hurt this very image. Intel aims to hold 35% of the total\nsilicon-based semiconductor market, instead of holding 77% of the processor\nmarket as it does currently. Whether this will be a good move or not remains to\nbe seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: wccftech.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
13. Intel\u2019s\nfirst few products were memory chips and not a processor!: <\/strong>in 1968, Intel\nreleased its first product, a \u2018Dynamic Random Access Memory\u2019 (DRAM) chip, which\nallowed computers to read and write into memory up to 100 times faster than the\nthen-current speed. This changed the face of the computing market forever as\nmost major manufacturers started to base their PCs around the DRAM chip. This\nfueled Intel\u2019s meteoric rise to fame and subsequent release of the first-ever 4\n\u2013 bit microprocessor, the 4004. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Britannica)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
14. Intel was\nthe mother of the concept of motherboards: <\/strong>Around the mid-1990s, Intel was\nsupplying big-name manufacturers like HP and IBM with the processors. These\nmanufacturers could then design their own hardware around these CPUs. However,\nIntel also wanted smaller manufactures to be able to use their products. So, to\nfacilitate this, Intel designed the concept of a \u2018Motherboard.\u2019 This board\nwould contain all the necessary hardware to make a computer function, including\nperipheral interfaces, memory, heat dissipation modules, etc. This concept was\nrapidly adopted by the industry and allowed Intel to get an even larger share\nof the consumer computer market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Britannica)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
15. Apple is\nthe only major company that didn\u2019t use Intel\u2019s CPU for their computers since\nthe 1980s, before giving up: <\/strong>When the Lisa and Macintosh were launched in\nthe 1980s, they surprised the consumer market by opting to go for the Motorola\nM6000 processors instead of their Intel variant. This made them the only major\nconsumer company to do so, and they received a lot of criticism for the same as\nat the time almost every software was written with the Intel architecture in\nmind. This criticism and Motorola\u2019s inability to match Intel\u2019s technological\nadvancements spurred Apple to switch to Intel in 2005. This arrangement is due\nto change again, with some reports suggesting that the 2020 models of the Mac\nand MacBook will be based on Apple\u2019s proprietary hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Apple)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
16. Intel\u2019s\ntransistors can switch on and off 1.5 trillion times in one second: <\/strong>As\ndiscussed earlier, transistors are just switches that can conditionally let\nelectricity pass through them. Modern transistors can achieve this switching\naction nearly 1.5 trillion times, for years at a time. For comparison, if a\nhuman were to try switching a switch on and off 1.5 trillion times, it would take\nthem over 25,000 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Intel )<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s All About the Money<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Now that we\u2019ve\nlooked at Intel\u2019s various achievements and amazing facts, lets talk a bit about\nthe more practical side of business. Here we explore some of the statistics\nabout Intel\u2019s giant bank account:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
17. Intel\nearned $70.8 billion in revenue in 2018: <\/strong>Poised as the industry leader in\nthe manufacture of processors is a highly profitable position. So much so that\nIntel earned roughly $70.8 billion in 2018, with a projected revenue of $73.2\nbillion for 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Intel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
18. Until\n2019, Intel Capital has invested $12.4 billion in various start-ups across the\nworld: <\/strong>Intel Capital is Intel\u2019s investment fund that it uses to invest in\nemerging companies and technologies. Since its creation in 1991, it has funded\nover 200 companies, spending nearly $12.4 billion. These investments are spread\nacross the world, with companies in 57 countries benefitting from Intel\u2019s help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Intel Capital)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
19. The\nmarket cap of Intel is $247.1 billion as of 7th<\/sup> December 2019: <\/strong>The\nmarket cap of a company is calculated by taking the total number of shares it\nhas floated on the market and multiplying it with the companies\u2019 current stock\nprice. For Intel, a publicly-traded company since 1970, this figure rests at an\namazing figure of $247.1 billion. While this trails behind industry giants such\nas Amazon and Apple, it is still among the top 0.5% companies in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Forbes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
20. Intel had\nto pay $15,000 to buy the name: <\/strong>When Intel was decided as the name for the\ncompany, instead of Moore Noyce and NM Technologies, they faced a major issue. The\nname Intelco was already licensed by a hotel chain in the Mid-West. Not wanting\nto enter a legal battle over the name, Intel decided to pay $15,000 to the\nchain for the exclusive use of the name. Who knows they might go after the CIA\nnext to stop them from saying \u2018intel\u2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: The Inquirer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
21. Intel\u2019s\nR&D budget for 2019 is projected to be $14.05 billion: <\/strong>Given Intel\u2019s\nposition as one of the most innovative companies on the planet, it is no\nsurprise that the company has a very robust R&D team. This team is very\nwell staffed and funded, with $139.54 billion being spent on R7D in 2018. This\nfigure is expected to break the $140 billion mark in 2019, firmly establishing\nIntel as the leader of the pack when it comes to processor manufacture. For\ncomparison, AMD, one of Intel\u2019s biggest rivals, only spent around $3 billion on\nR&D in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Macrotrends)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
22. 52% of\nIntel\u2019s profit is made by selling processors to consumer computers: <\/strong>While\nIntel has been making massive inroads in the server and mainframe markets, it\nstill primarily identifies as a consumer electronics company. It\u2019s \u2018i\u2019 series\nof processors are being used in most major laptops and desktops today, with the\nlargest consumer being Dell followed by Lenovo. This consumer market accounted\nfor almost 52% of Intel\u2019s profits for the 2018-2019 fiscal year. This consumer\nmarket has been dubbed the \u2018Computing Client Group\u2019 by Intel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Intel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
23. 42% of\nIntel\u2019s profit came from China and Taiwan: <\/strong>Intel\u2019s products are very\nprolific across the world. However, a majority of their profits come from the\nAsia \u2013 Pacific regions, owing to the large scale manufacturing companies based\nin the area. 42% of Intel\u2019s revenue comes from China and Taiwan, with 20.1%\ncoming from other Asia – Pacific countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Nasdaq)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
24. Intel\u2019s\nstock grew only 6% since January 2019 (to December 2019), while AMD\u2019s grew 83%:\n<\/strong>While Intel may be the industry leader in semi-conductor based chips, its\ngrowth has stagnated due to its 10nm processors not being up to the usual\nstandard. Since AMD has recently perfected its 7nm design, while Intel still\nstruggles with its 10nm, the stock price increase for them has seen a massive\ndiscrepancy arise. AMD\u2019s stack saw an unprecedented 83% rise in value, while\nIntel posted a measly 6% rise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: alvareztg.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
25. Intel\nspent nearly $6.54 billion on marketing in 2018, reduced from $8.4 billion in\n2016: <\/strong>Intel has one of the most widely recognized marketing campaigns in\nthe world, with its \u2018Intel Inside\u2019 deal with the leading manufacturers.\nEssentially if manufactures visibly advertise the \u2018Intel Inside\u2019 brand, they\nare entitled to a substantial discount for Intel\u2019s products. However, recently,\nIntel has slowed down considerably in its marketing, opting to divert more\nfunds to its R&D and manufacturing divisions. While this did decrease their\nmarketing budget by a sizable amount, their overall revenue still dropped\nheavily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: The Motley Fool)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
26. Intel was\n#43 on the fortune 500 list for 2019: <\/strong>The fortune 500 lists the top 500\ncompanies in the world based on their revenue. It should come as no surprise\nthat Intel has managed to rate in the top 50 consistently since 1991, going\nunder 50 just twice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Fortune)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
27. The cost for printing one transistor is less than printing a character in a newspaper: <\/strong>Intel\u2019s focus since its creation has been on creating cheaper and faster transistors. Going from being worth nearly $5 in 1920 per transistors, the price has reduced to less than that of printing one character onto a newspaper in an industrial press. That is less than $0.005 per transistor! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Source: Intel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
References and Sources:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
- Intel<\/a><\/li>
- Guinness\nWorld Record<\/a><\/li>
- Intel<\/a><\/li>
- Business\nInsider<\/a><\/li>
- Intel<\/a><\/li>
- CS\nMonitor.com<\/a><\/li>
- Forbes<\/a><\/li>
- techpowerup.com<\/a><\/li>
- IEEE<\/a><\/li>
- Forbes<\/a><\/li>
- investopedia.com<\/a><\/li>
- wccftech.com<\/a><\/li>
- Britannica<\/a><\/li>
- Britannica<\/a><\/li>
- Apple<\/a><\/li>
- Intel<\/a><\/li>
- Intel<\/a><\/li>
- Intel\nCapital<\/a><\/li>
- Forbes<\/a><\/li>
- The\nInquirer<\/a><\/li>
- Macrotrends<\/a><\/li>
- Intel<\/a><\/li>
- Nasdaq<\/a><\/li>
- alvareztg.com<\/a><\/li>
- The\nMotley Fool<\/a><\/li>
- Fortune<\/a><\/li>
- Intel<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
- Guinness\nWorld Record<\/a><\/li>
- The name Intel is a combination\nof the initial parts of the word \u2018INTegrated ELectronics<\/strong>.\u2019<\/li>