Intel Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It designs, manufactures, and sells computer components such as central processing units and related products for business and consumer markets. Intel was the world's third-largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue in 2024 and has been included in the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue since 2007. It was one of the first companies listed on Nasdaq. Since 2025, Intel is partially owned by the United States government. Intel is a shortened form of Integrated Electronics, the name chosen by the company's founders in 1968. The term "Intel" was originally a portmanteau, and the company had to purchase the rights to use it from a hotel chain named Intelco, which already held the trademark. Intel supplies microprocessors for most manufacturers of computer systems, and is one of the developers of the x86 series of instruction sets found in most personal computers. Wikipedia