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
Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp. code is derived from the program's source code, an individual possessing the object code does not possess any knowledge of any trade secrets embodied in the source code. The appeals court decision also prompted discussion because of a lengthy footnote contained in the opinion that decried the 8,000 pages of records filed with the court for this case, to which fact Justice Rushing commented: "Seldom have so many trees died for so little". Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp. Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp was a trade secrets case heard before the California Court of Appeal for the Sixth