From Intel’s “Corporate Overview”;
For more than three decades, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world’s first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the “ingredients” of computers, servers and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems. Intel’s mission is to be the preeminent building block supplier to the Internet economy.
Principal Products and Services
Microprocessors, also called central processing units (CPUs), are frequently described as the “brain” of a computer because they control the central processing of data in personal computers (PCs), servers, workstations, and other devices.