Intel Corp.

Intel Corporation, commonly known as Intel, is a publicly traded multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Founded on July 18, 1968, by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, Intel is a foundational company of Silicon Valley. The company trades on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol INTC. As of early 2025, Intel had approximately 85,100 employees and reported revenue of $52.85 billion for the 2025 fiscal year.

Intel designs, manufactures, and sells a wide range of semiconductor chips and related technology products. The company is best known for its microprocessors, which are the central processing units (CPUs) found in most personal computers (PCs). Its major product lines include the Intel Core series for consumer PCs, the Xeon series for servers and workstations, and the Atom series for low-power mobile devices. Beyond CPUs, Intel also produces chipsets, network interface controllers, flash memory, graphics processing units (GPUs), and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The company's technologies are critical for data centers, cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence applications.

As a major operating company, Intel is frequently a target of patent litigation. The provided data shows Intel as a defendant in a case brought by Empire Technology Development LLC, reflecting a typical posture for a large technology firm defending against patent assertions. The single tracked case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, a popular venue for patent litigation.

The tracked case, Empire Technology Development LLC v. Intel Corp, was filed on April 17, 2026. This lawsuit is indicative of the constant legal challenges large, product-focused technology companies like Intel face from non-practicing entities (NPEs) that acquire and assert patents. Intel's extensive global operations and broad product portfolio make it a perennial target for such litigation.