From memory chips to processors
At first Intel made memory chips. When Japanese competitors drove their prices down, it switched to processors in the 1980s. The “Intel Inside” campaign of 1991 turned a chip brand into something customers looked for when buying a computer.
Hard years
Intel ruled the market for a long time, but it missed the rise of mobile phones and fell behind Taiwan's TSMC in manufacturing the smallest chips. AMD took part of its market. In 2024 Intel made heavy losses, and in 2025 both the US government and NVIDIA invested in it.
Moore's law
Co-founder Gordon Moore formulated a prediction that the number of transistors would keep doubling, known as Moore's law.