<p>The Origins of Intel and the Rise of a Giant<br>Intel's story begins in 1968, when two visionaries, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, left Fairchild Semiconductor to found their own company. Both were already prominent figures in the world of technology, with Noyce being a co-inventor of the integrated circuit and Moore formulating the famous Moore's Law, which predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double every two years. Intel...