Intel Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Intel Corporation was founded on July 18, 1968, by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore (of Moore's law), and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove. The company's name was conceived as portmanteau of the words "int"egrated and "el"ectronics, with co-founder Noyce having been a key inventor of the integrated circuit (microchip). The fact that "intel" is the term for intelligence information also made the name appropriate. Intel was an
Skidmore v. Swift & Co. majority in "Christensen" held that an agency's interpretation of a statute, announced in more informal agency papers (such as an opinion letter), is entitled to "Skidmore" deference, not "Chevron" deference. "United States v. Mead Corp.", 533 U.S. 218 (2001) explicitly reaffirms Skidmore and reiterates deference to agency interpretations that do not have statutory authority resulting from a rule-making process are based on "the agency's care, its consistency, formality, and relative expertness, and to the persuasiveness of the agency's position." Skidmore v. Swift & Co. Skidmore v. Swift & Co., 323 U.S. 134 (1944), is a United States Supreme Court decision