Intel Corporation: Creating Intelligent Chipsets and Microprocessors

Intel Corporation is a designer and manufacturer of integrated digital technology platforms consisting of a chipset and microprocessor. Intel sells these platforms to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), original design manufacturers (ODMs) and producers of communications and industrial equipments.

The company’s platforms are primarily used for modern applications such as personal computers (PCs), tablets, smartphones, data centers, automobiles, medical equipments and apparatuses and almost all kinds of automated systems. They also develop and market software for technology and security integration.

Intel’s microprocessors are found on many branded computers. They are used in the computers’ central processing units to process data and control other devices within the system. Intel produces microprocessors with single or multiple processor cores.

The company’s microprocessors have also evolved over time. Before the release of the recent generations the Intel Core processors, Intel’s microprocessors have graphics chips separate from the processor package itself. But the new generations of the Intel Core processor family has integrated the graphics function and memory controls in one processor package.

Intel’s chipsets are also used to send data between the microprocessor and the other components of computer hardware like the display monitor, the input device and the storage device. The company’s System-on-Chip (SoC) has integrated the major processing functions with other components in the system such as the audio, video and graphics into one chip.

Mobile phones are also using Intel’s platforms and components. Most common of these components are power management integrated circuits, radio frequency transceivers and baseband processors. Platforms include Bluetooth technology, GPS receivers and software solutions.

McAfee, Intel’s subsidiary sells security solution software used in corporate environment as well as mobile and consumer systems. McAfee’s security software offers protection from attacks of malicious virus and even data loss.

Intel also sells flash memory items used in memory storage devices and digital camera memory cards. Their portable drives come in densities which range from 32 GB to as high as 600 GB.

Intel Corporation was incorporated in 1968.