Intel : Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation

Fifty years ago, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel with a purpose: To ponder what might be possible. To imagine, to question and to do wonderful in pursuit of a better future. In honor of our golden anniversary, we're embracing Noyce's inspiring challenge, 'Don't be encumbered by history, go off and do something wonderful.'

Our 50th anniversary is an opportunity to honor our heritage and look ahead to what's next. Intel is building the future with the technologies we invent, delivering experiences once thought to be impossible.

Intel's anniversary is officially July 18, 2018, but all year long we will bring together our people, our partners and our communities to celebrate a bright future for Intel today, and a better world tomorrow.

People of Intel

• My Intel Story (Stories and Timeline)
• Beenish Z.
• Matt S.
• Alfonso F.

• A New Path to Learn and Succeed in America with Intel
• Designing for Disabilities -- How Diversity Strengthens Intel's Work
• Finding Not Just a Career but a Family at Intel
• Veterans at Intel: Commitment to Country, Community and Career
• Intel EXTEND Co-founder Inspired by Tribal Values to Create Her Intel Legacy

July 18, 2018 - Anniversary Day

• Intel's Bob Swan Opens Nasdaq Trading
• Intel at 50: Innovation Platform for a New Era
• Catalyzing Waves of Technology Innovation, Past and Future - Intel Chip Chat

Intel's Top 10 Innovations

Intel employees recently voted - in a popular, unscientific vote - on the top 10 Intel innovations. After crowdsourcing 50 contenders, Intel internal communications writers and editors invited employees to vote on Intel's most important innovations. More than 26,000 votes resulted in this top 10 list.

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Drone Light Show

• Intel Breaks Guinness World Records Title for Drone Light Shows in Celebration of 50th Anniversary

• Intel Corporation flies 2,018 Intel Shooting Star drones over its Folsom, California, facility, in July 2018. The drone light show set a Guinness World Records title for the most unmanned aerial vehicles airborne simultaneously. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Intel Corporation flies 2,018 Intel Shooting Star drones over its Folsom, California, facility, in July 2018. The drone light show set a Guinness World Records title for the most unmanned aerial vehicles airborne simultaneously. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Intel Corporation flies 2,018 Intel Shooting Star drones over its Folsom, California, facility, in July 2018. The drone light show set a Guinness World Records title for the most unmanned aerial vehicles airborne simultaneously. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Intel Corporation flies 2,018 Intel Shooting Star drones over its Folsom, California, facility, in July 2018. The drone light show set a Guinness World Records title for the most unmanned aerial vehicles airborne simultaneously. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Natalie Cheung, drone light show general manager at Intel, holds an Intel Shooting Star drone. In July 2018, Intel Corporation flew 2,018 Intel Shooting Star drones over its Folsom, California, facility. The drone light show set a Guinness World Records title for the most unmanned aerial vehicles airborne simultaneously. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

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• 50 Years of Record Breaking Innovation | Drone Light Show | Intel
• Intel Sets Guinness World Records Title for Drone Light Shows (B-roll)

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News and Stories

• 50th Anniversary Goal Achieved: Record Number of Intel Employee Volunteers Give Back across the Globe
• Time Capsule Presentation
• Q&A with Intel's Dov Frohman, Inventor of EPROM

Intel at 50 Story Series

• Moore's Law
• Intel's First Product - the 3101
• Intel's 1101
• The Penang Fire and Recovery
• Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
• Bunny Suits
• The 8080 Microprocessor
• The MCS-48 Family
• The 8086 and Operation Crush
• Mount St. Helens and the 'Mr. Volcano' Program
• Recovering from Intel's Roughest Years
• Tom Wolfe's 'The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce'
• 45-Nanometer Manufacturing
• Andy Grove, Time's Man of the Year
• Ultrabooks
• EEC-IV Automotive Computer & Ford
• Gordon Moore on Intel's Founding
• Conflict-Free Minerals

Intel Facts

• Fifty Fast Facts
• Facts & Figures and Where to Find Them

Historic Photos

• Introduced in 1992, the Pentium processor was named by Intel employees who entered a companywide contest. Rejected monikers included 586NOT! and Iamfastests. Pentium is derived from the 'penta,' a Greek word for five. It was a reminder that it was Intel's fifth-generation microprocessor. While an external branding agency coined the name Pentium, 18 employees who had suggested something very similar each received $200. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Introduced in 1992, the Pentium processor was named by Intel employees who entered a companywide contest. Rejected monikers included 586NOT! and Iamfastests. Pentium is derived from the 'penta,' a Greek word for five. It was a reminder that it was Intel's fifth-generation microprocessor. While an external branding agency coined the name Pentium, 18 employees who had suggested something very similar each received $200. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Gordon Moore (with the shovel), Robert Noyce (right) and two unidentified people help with the groundbreaking ceremony in April 1970 for Intel's SC1 building in Santa Clara, California. On April 21, 1970, Intel began construction on the company's new Santa Clara headquarters. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Intel's SC1 headquarters building in Santa Clara, California, in a photo from the early 1970s. It was the first site the company owned rather than rented (previously Intel had operated out of a leased building in Mountain View). The property was originally a pear orchard; after construction was completed, employees could pick pears on the undeveloped land until SC2 was built. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Fire destroyed Intel's assembly plant in Penang, Malaysia, in 1975. The disaster proved the beginning of a manufacturing triumphs as Penang employees were back to work within 10 days of the fire. Employees operated out of four swing and graveyard facilities offered by neighboring semiconductor manufacturers -- as well as the Intel cafeteria -- during the eight months it took to rebuild the plant. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• An Intel archive photo shows Intel's first 106 employees, including co-founders Robert Noyce (front left) and Gordon Moore (front right), and their first hire, Andy Grove (second row, far right). In 1969, with 106 employees, Intel began its operations at 365 E. Middlefield Road in Mountain View, Calif. The space is 'larger than we need,' Gordon Moore told a local newspaper. Intel would start plans for expansion less than two years later. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• An Intel archive photo shows an early generation of bunny suits worn in Intel factory clean rooms. Few things are more quintessentially Intel than its iconic fab (or factory) bunny suits. The first ones were introduced in 1973. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• An Intel archive photos shows the Busicom 141-PF desktop calculator. Intel sold the rights to its first microprocessor (the 4004) to Busicom, a Japanese company that needed integrated circuits for its new line of programmable electronic calculators in 1970. Intel repurchased the rights to the 4004 for the original investment of $60,000. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• An Intel archive photo shows Wrinkles, which was manufactured in the 1980s by Canadian toy company Ganz. Intel's MCS-51 was in everything from anti-lock brakes to airplanes to talking dog plushies. Wrinkles was powered by the 80C31BH controller, a part of the MCS-51 family. With an 8-bit CMOS processor and 32K bytes of read-only-memory, the toy dog had a basic vocabulary of 150 words and more than 2,800 combinations of sounds. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

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A History of PC Innovation (Infographic)

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Manufacturing

• Manufacturing at Intel (B-roll, Photos)

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• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
• Production and cleanroom facilities at work in Intel's D1D/D1X plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, in April 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

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