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Intel Corporation, founded in 1968 by engineers Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and investor Arthur Rock (with Andy Grove as a key early leader), is a major American tech company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and was one of the first firms listed on the new Nasdaq exchange. Initially making memory chips, it created the world's first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004, in 1971, but only became a CPU powerhouse after the PC boom of the early 1980s. Its x86 processors and the "Wintel" partnership with Microsoft in the 1990s made it the dominant supplier for PCs, solidifying its place in the Fortune 500 and ranking as the third-largest chipmaker by revenue in 2024. However, since the late 2010s, competition from AMD has eroded its market share, though it still leads the x86 market by a wide margin in the 2020s. Today, Intel produces CPUs (like the Intel Core line) and GPUs (Arc series), but its history also includes aggressive anti-competitive tactics and tensions with Microsoft over the PC industry's direction.