President Paul Otellini has performed many tasks during his 25 years at the company, including helping to drive a forklift.
"We had to make the end-of-quarter shipments," he said. "The warehouse was across the street on Walsh Ave."
The chip giant celebrated its 35th anniversary on Tuesday, and executives and longtime employees who gathered at company headquarters in Santa Clara, California, to bury a time capsule agreed that Intel has gone a lot farther than anyone ever would have guessed. For a quarter of a century, Intel"s x86 technology has provided the basic architecture underlying most PCs.
Thirty-five years ago, the semiconductor industry as a whole accounted for $1bn in revenue, said co-founder Gordon Moore. Intel now garners that much revenue in a few weeks. Fifteen years ago, there were only 70 million PCs in use. Now, there are around one billion.