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Intel founded by Noyce and Moore (ex-employees at Fairchild Semiconductor) in 1968
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from DRAM processors
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Intel comes out with its 3rd product, the Intel 1103, which put Intel on the map.
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Intel launches its first microprocessor, the 4004.
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Intel announces the first 8-bit microprocessor, the 8008.
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Intel launches the Intel 8080 microprocessor, the first general-purpose microprocessor, featuring 4,500 transistors.
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Intel launches the Intel MCS-48 series of microcontrollers, the world's first microcontrollers (which combine a CPU with memory, peripherals, and input-output functions).
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Intel introduces the 8086 16-bit microprocessor, which becomes the industry standard (for the x86 instruction set).
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Intel and Xerox introduce the cooperative Ethernet project.
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Intel transitions from producing mainly DRAM memory chips to proceessors.
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Intel launches the 16-bit Intel 286 microprocessor, which features 134,000 transistors and is built into many PCs.
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Intel launches CHMOS technology, which increases chip performance while decreasing power consumption.
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Intel announces the world's first CHMOS DRAMs, which have densities as high as 256K.
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Intel enters the parallel supercomputer business and introduces the iPSC/1.
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Intel launches (and sole-sources) the 80386 processor, a 32-bit chip that incorporates 275K transistors and can run multiple software programs at once.
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Boom in PC sales. Intel benefits by setting the standard for "IBM Clones" like Compaq. Intel also encounters increasing competition from AMD. By 1998, Intel rolls out 3 major semiconductor lines for the personal computer market.
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Intel introduces the 80486 microprocessor, which it sole-sources for 4 years. This offers backwards compatibility.
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Intel decides that it will stick with CISC architecture, and cuts off support for RISC architecture, which was internally developed by Les Kohn.
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Intel launches the Pentium processor, which has 3.1 million transistors, initial speeds of 60 mHz, features an integrated floating-point unit, and is built on a 0.8 micron bi-CMOS process.
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Intel launches the Pentium Pro processor, a high-performance chip targeted for 32-bit workstations.
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Intel launches the Pentium MMX product line.
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Intel launches the Pentium II line of processors, which is Intel's sixth-generation microarchitecture (P6).
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The Internet was beginning to usher in massive changes in e-commerce and consumer behavior. Intel launches Centrino mobile technology, which helps usher in the wireless era.
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Intel rolls out the Intel Pentium II Xeon processor, Intel's new high-end solution for the workstation and server markets.
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Intel launches the first processor for the budget PC market segment, the Intel Celeron processor.
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Intel launches the Pentium III generation of microprocessors, which features the addition of the SSE instruction set (to accelerate floating point and parallel calculations)
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Intel introduces the Pentium 4 processor, with an initial speed of 1.5 GHz.
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Intel introduces Centrino processor technology for laptop PCs, which made wireless compatibility a standard for laptop computers.
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Intel announces that it will implement its first 64-bit processor, and releases the Nocona on June 2004.
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Intel starts releasing multicore processors. By the end of this period, Intel also gains significant traction in its competition against Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
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Intel launches the Core 2 Duo processor, which marks its transition into dual core processors.
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Intel announces the Intel Atom, a line of low-power, low-cost and low-performance x86 and x86-64 microprocessors that can be used for smartphones and tablets.
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Intel announces the Nehalem microprocessor, which represents the new Core i7 brand of high-end microprocessors to replace the Core 2 Duo microprocessors.
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Intel announces the Sandy Bridge series of i7 microprocessors to replace Nehalem. Sandy Bridge microprocessors start out as quad-core.
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Intel announces that it will put the first 3D transistors. into high-volume production (the structure it invented is called "Tri-Gate").
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Intel's smartphone processors still fail to gain significant traction. Intel also starts to manufacture processors for the Internet of Things market.
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Intel releases the next-generation lineup of desktop and mobile processors in the Core i3, i5, and i7 family - known as Haswell.
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Intel announces the Intel Quark, a tiny chip that can power Internet of Things and wearable devices.
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Intel announces withdrawal from smartphone market.