Welcome, and thanks for reading this issue of Fast Company’s Plugged In. On August 22, President Donald Trump announced via Truth Social that the U.S. federal government had acquired 10% of Intel. The ...

Intel has been a dominant player for much of the modern computing age. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel in 1968. The company's name comes from the phrase "integrated electronics." In the ...

The Intel processor has been the standard processor architecture for decades. It is tempting to think that all this was planned, but the true story is very different. After making a success in ...

The MCS-4 as it was first called, could only be sold to Busicom who had paid for most of the development. A little later on a slump in the calculator market forced Busicom to ask Intel to lower the ...

Going as far back as I can recall, CPUs came in packages with pins on the bottom and laid flat on the motherboard. Then for a while, they had contacts along the edge and stood perpendicular to the ...