Intel Corporation

Company Pedigree

Ascendant Companies		Descendent Companies
Company	Comments	Company	Comments
Fairchild Semiconductor	Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore left Fairchild to found Intel. Many other Fairchild employees latter joined Intel	Seeq Technology	Founded by Gordie Campbell in 1980
		Sequent	A computer company founded by Cassey Powell. Developed NUMA technology. Sequent was bought by IBM in 1999.
		Zilog	Founded by Federico Faggin, Ralph Ungermann, and some other Intel employees in 1974.
		SEI	Founded in 1987 by former Intel engineers.

Company Overview

Intel was founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Noyce and Moore left Fairchild Semiconductor to start a solid state memory business. Their first product was the Intel 3101.

Major Achievements

1971 - First solid-state memory device - Intel 3101 SRAM

1971 - First PMOS memory device - Intel 1101 SRAM

First ROM - Intel 3301

First EPROM - Intel 1702

First DRAM - Intel 1103

1971 - First CPU on a chip - Intel 4004

1972 - First 8-bit CPU - Intel 8008

Chip Identification

Logos

Chip Markings

Intel Chips

Microprocessors
CPU's	4004, 4040, 8008, 8080, 8085, 8086, 860, 960
MCU's	8048, 8051, 8095
Bit-Slice	3000
Memory Devices
RAM	Schottky Bipolar - 3101, 3104 PMOS SRAM - 1101, 2101, 2111, 2112, 2114, 2115, 2125, 2147 PMOS DRAM - 1103, 2104, 2107, 2108, 2116 NMOS SRAM - 8101, 8102, 8111, 8155 CMOS RAM - 5101
ROM	1302, 2308, 2316, 4308, 4316, 8308, 8316, 8355
PROM	3601, 3621, 3602, 3622, 3604, 3624, 3605, 3625, 3608, 3628
EPROM	1702, 2704, 2708, 2716, 2732, 2758, 2764, 27128, 8755
EEPROM	None
CCD Memory	2416
Bubble Memory	7110
General Use Support Chips
Shift Registers	1402, 2401
Interfaces
Communications	2914, 82586

Second Sourced Chips

Microprocessors
CPU's	None
MCU's	None
Bit-Slice	None
Memory Devices
RAM	None
ROM	None
PROM	None
EPROM	None
EEPROM	None
CCD Memory	None
Bubble Memory	None
General Use Support Chips
Shift Registers	None
Interfaces	None
Communications	None

Other Resources

www.intel.com Intel's main website with current microprocessor information

Intel's Microprocessor Hall of Fame A history of Intel's chips, links to other historical information

Inside Intel : Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company by Tim Jackson

Excellent book on Intel's history. Just enough info on chips to keep it interesting for collectors.

For sale on www.amazon.com