Intel was founded by Gordon E. Moore in 1968. Mr. Moore was a physicist and a chemist. He also meets Robert Noyce, again another physicist and co-creator of integrated circuitry. After they both had left Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1980’s. Intel was run by a chemical engineer by the name of Andy Grove. Andy Grove today is considered to be one of the company’s essential businesses and considered strategic leaders. As the year of 1990 came to an end, Intel had become one of the largest and by far the most successful business in the entire world. Intel has gone through many faces and phases. At first Intel was set apart by its ability primarily to create memory chips or SRAM. When Intel was founded, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce had the idea to name their company Moore Noyce; however when the name was spoken it was heard as “More Noise” which that idea was quickly abandoned and the pursuit of a more suitable name. The name NM Electronics was shortly chosen and used for nearly a year. The company experienced another name change to Integrated Electronics, or INTEL for short. The rights to the name had to be purchased as it was already in use by a fairly well known hotel chain. A client in the early 70’s from Japan wanted to recruit Intel services to design twelve chips for their calculators. Knowing that they did not have the manpower or the resources to complete this job effectively, Ted Hoff agreed to the job just the same to any other challenge. His idea was: “What if we can design one computer chip which could function the same as twelve microchips?”. Hoof’s idea was completely embraced by Moore and Noyce. If this project was effective and that the chip could have the ability to receive command functions. After a conscient... ... middle of paper ... ...ual core processor that has two separate cores on the same processor, each with its own cache. It essentially is two microprocessors in one. In a dual core processor, each core handles arriving data strings simultaneously to improve efficiency. Intel is now producing a new type of CPUs known as the Core i series. This series has been out for a while nonetheless, they are still considered relatively young. The Core i3 is the latest budget processor. Even though the Core i3 is the lowest of the series, it’s still a very good processor. The Core i5 is the latest mid-range processor that you can buy from Intel. The i5 has an amazing and noticeable difference of speed, depending what type of software you are using. The i5 comes in two different types of processors; the dual core and the quad core. The Core i7 is the fastest and most expensive yet to come out of Intel.
Steve Jobs and his friend Wozniak started to create their very first computer, and it came out a lot better than what they thought it was going to be. With very little education, the first computer that came out was extraordinary. “It was the first single-board computer with built-in circuitry allowing for direct video interface, along with a central ROM, which allowed it to load programs from an external source” (“Steve P. Jobs”). Without the education that most people get, for someone who dropped out of college, Jobs created such a powerful computer without the knowledge that most people have. Jobs computer that he created along with his friend was so astonishing a second computer came out. “A year later, the Apple II was launched with a simple, compact design like the Apple I, plus a color monitor” (“Steve Paul Jobs”). The first computer that Jobs created was excellent enough to create a second one, which was also a superior computer. Even though Jobs dropped out of college, he was still intelligent enough to create one of the biggest companies in the world. Apple incorporations was going strong until one day the company decided to let Steve Jobs go,...
Many people living in this fast-paced, globally-connected world often take for granted the amount of technology that goes into the little “gadgets” they love. They also do not often think about the people that made this technology possible. Throughout history, there have been only a handful of persons that have truly altered the way in which a society operates and lives. Jack Kilby’s invention of the monolithic integrated circuit, or better known as the microchip, gave birth to a new technological field of modern microelectronics. His ingenious work at Texas Instruments over forty-five years ago, was a breakthrough that has led to the “sophisticated high-speed computers and large-capacity semiconductor memories of today’s information age.”
...n it all comes down to it, it all depends on what you really want to spend. Intel does have higher performing processors but all that means is that they have a wider array of selection. AMD has some processors that can compete with Intel, but if you want the most “bang for your buck” or you want the highest performance, Intel has proven to be on an entirely different playing field. Intel and AMD will continue to duke it out as long as both of the companies live, and ultimately one’s experience with either company’s processor is what determines whether or not one would purchase it. You hear enough bad things about AMD and Intel to not want to purchase either one of them, but really there is no other choice. The best route would be to not pick a company to stand by, but to pick a product that has good reviews and stick to that; regardless of which company produced it.
Apple is a well-known company when it comes to technology. Apple products are extremely desirable despite their outrageous prices. Apple technology is so preferable because these products were created by everyday people who knew exactly what consumers wanted. Apple was founded in 1976 by two college drop outs, Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak. Both Jobs and Wozniak were often viewed as outcasts. They were friends in high school and were both fascinated with electronics. Wozniak had been attracted to computer-design and created what became the Apple I. This first Apple computer was designed to be user friendly. Jobs convinced Wozniak that they should market and sell the machine to the individual consumer and not corporate
In 1968 Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove founded a new company that built semiconductor memory products, named NM Electronics Inc. Moore and Noyce had problems with the copyright of the company’s name as it already belonged to a hotel chain. Noyce, Moore and Grove then changed the name to Intel Corporation, short for Integrated Electronics. The small startup company was founded in Santa Clara, California with $500,000 and funds from investors. In 1971 they introduced the world’s first microprocessor, which revolutionized the computer industry. Moore sensed the impending growth of the semiconductor computer chip industry and predicted that the amount of transistors on a single computer chip would double every year. This fact helds true and has been coined as “Moore’s Law”. Intel's mission is to be the preeminent building block supplier to the Interne...
In 1984, the same year that Compaq introduced a PC that included Intel’s new and more powerful 80386 class of microprocessors, beating IBM to market and Michael Dell began building IBM compatible computers in his college dormitory, Lenovo was form as a shop in a small concrete bungalow in Beijing with a mandate to commercialize the Academy’s research and use the proceeds to further computer science research.
Though the building blocks of IBM reach back into the mid 1880’s, the company was officially founded in 1911 when Charles F. Flint engineered the merger of Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company, Computing Scale Company of America and International Time Recording Company. The agreed upon name was Computing- Tabulating- Recording Company or C-T-R. C-T-R soon found itself struggling do to over diversification of its product. In 1914 Thomas J. Watson, Sr. was brought in to help homogenize the company. He succeeded to turn the company around in just 11 months and redirected its focus to producing large-scale, custom-built tabulating solutions for businesses and left the rest of their former endeavors to the competition. Over the next four years, with Watson at the helm, the company’s revenues doubled and expanded operations to Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia.
Dell was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, who started upgrading IBM compatible personal computers in his college dorm, and then sold them door to door. The Dell business model is what, ultimately, led to the success of the Dell Company. Dell used the same principle that Michael Dell created in his college venture: eliminate the middle man. The company sold its products directly to its customers rather than sell it through distributors. Dell used home-based telephone representatives and field-based representatives to service its customers. Dell’s high growth rates and attractive margins allowed him to fund growth internally which led to him being able to receive orders from government organizations and oil companies. By 1985, Dell’s company grew to $6 million. Dell changed his strategy to begin offering built-to-order computers. By year-end, the company generated $70 million in sales. The competition in the computer industry was intense wit...
13 May, 2009 - European Union fines Intel Corporation a record €1.06bn fine for violating Competition Law. EU Antitrust Commission imposes fine for violating European Community Treaty antitrust rules by an abuse of dominant position through illegal practices, excluding competitors from a market for computer chips called x86 central processing units (CPUs) (1). Intel Corp. refused playing guilty and asked judges to overturn the antitrust fine, arguing that EU failed to use mitigating evidence and “capture dynamics of competition”, according to Nicholas Green, lawyer of Intel.
In the past few decades, one field of engineering in particular has stood out in terms of development and commercialisation; and that is electronics and computation. In 1965, when Moore’s Law was first established (Gordon E. Moore, 1965: "Cramming more components onto integrated circuits"), it was stated that the number of transistors (an electronic component according to which the processing and memory capabilities of a microchip is measured) would double every 2 years. This prediction held true even when man ushered in the new millennium. We have gone from computers that could perform one calculation in one second to a super-computer (the one at Oak Ridge National Lab) that can perform 1 quadrillion (1015) mathematical calculations per second. Thus, it is only obvious that this field would also have s...
As we are stepping towards the era of 2020, man have consistently been innovative and creative in developing and improving technology for various sectors to make the world a better place for us to live in. If we look closely today, the development of IT and Computer sector and its application have greatly influenced various other sectors like telecommunication, transport, agriculture, labour, finance, etc to be more efficient and effective at their work.
Prior to the revolution in technology that was microprocessors, making a computer was a large task for any manufacturer. Computers used to be built solely on discrete, or individual, transistors soldered together. Microprocessors act as the brain of a computer, doing all mathematics. Depending on how powerful the machine was intended to be, this could take weeks or even months to produce with individual components. This laborious task put the cost of a computer beyond the reach of any regular person. Computers before lithographic technology were massive and were mostly used in lab scenarios (Brain 1).
The purpose of this report is to study the current state of supercomputers and to briefly discuss predicted advancements in the field..A brief history about the supercomputer and its operation is initially outlined.
The First Generation of Computers The first generation of computers, beginning around the end of World War 2, and continuing until around the year 1957, included computers that used vacuum tubes, drum memories, and programming in machine code. Computers at that time where mammoth machines that did not have the power our present day desktop microcomputers. In 1950, the first real-time, interactive computer was completed by a design team at MIT. The "Whirlwind Computer," as it was called, was a revamped U.S. Navy project for developing an aircraft simulator.
The fist computer, known as the abacus, was made of wood and parallel wires on which beads were strung. Arithmetic operations were performed when the beads were moved along the wire according to “programming” rules that had to be memorized by the user (Soma, 14). The second earliest computer, invented by Blaise Pascal in 1694, was a “digital calculating machine.” Pascal designed this first known digital computer to help his father, who was a tax collector. Pascal’s computer could only add numbers, and they had to be entered by turning dials (Soma, 32). It required a manual process like its ancestor, the abacus. Automation was introduced in the early 1800’s by a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage. He created an automatic calculation machine that was steam powered and stored up to 1000 50-digit numbers. Unlike its two earliest ancestors, Babbage’s invention was able to perform various operations. It relied on cards with holes punched in them, which are called “punch cards.” These cards carried out the programming and storing operations for the machine. Unluckily, Babbage’s creation flopped due to the lack of mechanical precision and the lack of demand for the product (Soma, 46). The machine could not operate efficiently because technology was t adequate to make the machine operate efficiently Computer interest dwindled for many years, and it wasn’t until the mid-1800’s that people became interested in them once again.