Intel Corporation (Intel Corporation) is a technology company that designs and produces semiconductors. It was co-founded in California, USA in 1968 by Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove. In 1971, Intel launched the world's first microprocessor; in 2002, it established the Intel Asia-Pacific Application Design Center in Shenzhen; then acquired the chip manufacturer 'Altera' and the German drone company 'Ascending Technologies GmbH'.