Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Origin of the name
At its founding, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce wanted to name their new company Moore Noyce. The name, however, sounded remarkably similar to more noise — an ill-suited name for an electronics company, since noise is typically associated with bad interference. They then used the name NM Electronics for almost a year, before deciding to call their company INTegrated ELectronics or Intel for short[9]. However, Intel was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to buy the rights for that name at the beginning.[
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