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
Thomas S. Johnson Thomas S. Johnson Thomas S. Johnson is an American banker. He was chairman and CEO GreenPoint Financial Corp. and GreenPoint Bank and since April 23, 2001; he served there from 1993 to 2004. He has chaired the Board of Trustees of the United States-Japan Foundation. He was president and director of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and Manufacturers Hanover Corp. from 1989 to 1991. In 1st quarter 2009 he was named as non-executive chairman of the board at The Phoenix Cos. after serving on the board since 2000 Phoenix is based in Hartford CT (NYSE: PNX). Jefferson graduated from Harvard in