# Timeline of Intel

This is a timeline of Intel, one of the world's largest semiconductor chip makers.

## Timeline

| Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
| 1968 | July 18 | Company logo | Intel is founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, who had both left Fairchild Semiconductor. |
| 1969 | May 1 | Competition | Advanced Micro Devices is founded by Jerry Sanders. This company would become the second-largest supplier and only significant rival to Intel in the market for x86-based microprocessors. |
| 1970 | October | Products | Intel comes out with its 3rd product, the Intel 1103, which put Intel on the map. |
| 1971 | October 13 | Company | Intel goes IPO at a price of $23.50 a share. At 350,000 shares, this sums to a total of $8.225M. Intel becomes one of the very first companies to be listed on the then-newly established National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) stock exchange. |
| 1971 | November 15 | Product | Intel launches its first microprocessor, the 4004. |
| 1972 | April | Product | Intel announces the first 8-bit microprocessor, the 8008. |
| 1974 | April | Product | Intel launches the Intel 8080 microprocessor, the first general-purpose microprocessor, featuring 4,500 transistors. This finally kickstarts computer development. |
| 1976 | | Product | 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). |
| 1978 | June | Product | Intel introduces the 8086 16-bit microprocessor, which becomes the industry standard (for the x86 instruction set). |
| 1979 | November | Product | Intel launches "Operation Crush", a campaign to establish the 8086 as the standard for the 16-bit microprocessor market (which was competing with the technically superior Motorola 68000). This finally convinces IBM to adopt the 8086 in its upcoming personal computer. |
| 1980 | | Product | Intel and Xerox introduce the cooperative Ethernet project. |
| 1982 | February 1 | Product | Intel launches the 16-bit Intel 286 microprocessor, which features 134,000 transistors and is built into many PCs. |
| 1983 | | Product | Intel launches CHMOS technology, which increases chip performance while decreasing power consumption. |
| 1984 | | Product | Intel announces the world's first CHMOS DRAMs, which have densities as high as 256K. |
| 1985 | | Product | Intel enters the parallel supercomputer business and introduces the iPSC/1. |
| 1985 | October | Product | Intel launches (and sole-sources) the 80386 processor, a 32-bit chip that incorporates 275K transistors and can run multiple software programs at once. |
| 1986 | September | Partnerships | Compaq buys the 386 for its Deskpro personal computer. Compaq was one of several IBM clones that would adopt Intel processors, which shifted control of the computing industry from IBM to Intel. |
| 1986 | | Legal | The US-Japan Semiconductor Trade Agreement is signed, opening up Japanese markets to US semiconductor markets. |
| 1989 | April 10 | Product | Intel introduces the 80486 microprocessor, which it sole-sources for 4 years. This offers backwards compatibility. |
| 1989 | October | Marketing | Intel launches the "Red X" marketing campaign by discrediting its original 16-bit and 8-bit products, in order to encourage more people to adopt 32-bit computing. |
| 1990 | June 3 | Team | Robert Noyce suddenly dies from a heart attack. |
| 1990 | November | Competition | Intel loses its suit against AMD. This loss allows AMD to create clones of the 386 processor. |
| 1991 | Spring | Product | Intel decides that it will stick with CISC architecture, and cuts off support for RISC architecture, which was internally developed by Les Kohn. |
| 1991 | | Company | Intel starts the Intel Inside marketing campaign. |
| 1992 | | Competition | Intel becomes the top-ranked seller for semiconductor sales. It has retained its top ranking ever since. |
| 1993 | March | Product | 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. |
| 1994 | December | Product | Intel suffers a public relations disaster when CNN publicized the story that there was a flaw in the way that the Pentium chip did division. Intel argued that the flaw was irrelevant, but then IBM halted shipments of Pentium-based computers, forcing Intel to reverse course and offer a no-questions-asked return policy. |
| 1995 | November 1 | Product | Intel launches the Pentium Pro processor, a high-performance chip targeted for 32-bit workstations. |
| 1996 | October 22 | Product | Intel launches the Pentium MMX product line. |
| 1997 | May 7 | Product | Intel launches the Pentium II line of processors, which is Intel's sixth-generation microarchitecture (P6). |
| 1998 | April 1 | Company | Intel wins sponsorship rights to the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. |
| 1998 | June 29 | Product | Intel rolls out the Intel Pentium II Xeon processor, Intel's new high-end solution for the workstation and server markets. |
| 1998 | August 24 | Product | Intel launches the first processor for the budget PC market segment, the Intel Celeron processor. |
| 1999 | February 26 | Product | Intel launches the Pentium III generation of microprocessors, which features the addition of the SSE instruction set (to accelerate floating point and parallel calculations). |
| 1999 | October | Company | The Dow Jones Industrial Average adds Intel to its list. |
| 2000 | | Company | Intel launches Intel Research. |
| 2000 | November | Product | Intel introduces the Pentium 4 processor, with an initial speed of 1.5 GHz. |
| 2001 | May | Legal, competition | Intel and Advanced Micro Devices make a patent cross-license agreement between the companies. |
| 2003 | March | Product | Intel launches the Pentium M mobile processor, along with the Centrino processor technology for laptop PCs, which made wireless compatibility a standard for laptop computers. |
| 2004 | February | Product | Intel announces that it will implement its first 64-bit processor, and releases the Nocona in June 2004. |
| 2005 | May 25 | Product | Intel launches the Pentium D dual-core processor. |
| 2005 | June | Legal, competition | AMD files lawsuit against Intel, claiming that Intel engaged in unfair competition by offering rebates to Japanese PC manufacturers who agreed to eliminate or limit purchases of microprocessors made by AMD or a smaller manufacturer, Transmeta. In November 2009, Intel agrees to pay AMD $1.25 billion in a settlement. |
| 2006 | July 26 | Product | Intel launches the Core 2 processor. |
| 2007 | November | Competition | Qualcomm launches the first Snapdragon system on a chip semiconductor product, which included the first 1 GHz processor for mobile phones. By 2011, Snapdragon achieves 50% market share of the smartphone processor market. |
| 2008 | March 2 | Product | 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. |
| 2008 | August 10 | Product | Intel announces the Nehalem microprocessor, which represents the new Core i7 brand of high-end microprocessors to replace the Core 2 microprocessors. |
| 2009 | November | Legal | Intel pays Advanced Micro Devices $1.25 billion in a settlement over AMD's assertion that Intel rewarded computer makers that used only Intel chips and punished those who bought from AMD. |
| 2011 | January | Product | Intel announces the Sandy Bridge series of Core microprocessors to replace Nehalem. Sandy Bridge microprocessors start out as quad-core. |
| 2011 | May | Product | Intel announces that it will put the first 3D transistors into high-volume production (the structure it invented is called "Tri-Gate"). |
| 2013 | June | Product | Intel releases the next-generation lineup of desktop and mobile processors in the Core i3, i5, and i7 family – known as Haswell. |
| 2013 | September 10 | Product | Intel announces the Intel Quark, a tiny chip that can power Internet of things and wearable devices. |
| 2016 | May 3 | Product | Intel announces withdrawal from smartphone market. |
| 2017 | | Acquisition | Intel acquired Mobileye, a leader in the development of computer vision and machine learning for autonomous driving, for $15.3 billion. |
| 2018 | | Challenge | Intel security researchers discovered Spectre and Meltdown, two critical vulnerabilities that affected nearly all of the company’s processors. |
| 2018 | | Product | Intel introduced 5G modem, bringing faster speeds and lower latency to mobile devices. It also introduced new processors; Core i9 and Xeon Scalable. |
| 2019 | | Competition | Apple announced that it would no longer use Intel processors in its Mac computers. The company planned to switch to using its own ARM-based chips. |
| 2020 | September 2 | Product logo | Intel and all its products (except the ones that were discontinued or never got a new logo) get a new logo. |
| 2024 | February 21 | Product | Intel launched Intel Foundry as a more sustainable systems foundry business designed for the AI era. |
| 2024 | April | Competition | Intel becomes the worst-performing tech stock in the S&P 500, down 37% year-to-date. |