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Intel was founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Memory chips, the 4004 microprocessor, x86, the IBM PC and decades of manufacturing leadership made it central to personal computing.
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Cisco was founded in 1984 by Stanford computer scientists Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner. Its multiprotocol routers helped connect incompatible networks as the internet expanded.
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Palantir was founded in 2003 and first built software for US intelligence and counterterrorism work. Gotham, Foundry and Apollo later expanded the company into commercial and AI-driven operations.
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Oracle began in 1977 as Software Development Laboratories. Its SQL database gave the company a name and a platform, while enterprise applications, acquisitions, Sun Microsystems and cloud infrastructure broadened the business.
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David Lam founded Lam Research in 1980 and introduced the AutoEtch system a year later. Etch, deposition and wafer-fabrication technologies later made Lam a critical supplier to semiconductor manufacturers.
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Netflix was founded in 1997 and opened its online DVD rental store in 1998. It later replaced its own mail-order business with streaming and then transformed again into a global producer of original entertainment.
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Palo Alto Networks was incorporated in 2005 after Nir Zuk set out to rethink enterprise firewalls. The company expanded from next-generation firewalls into cloud, endpoint and AI-driven security platforms.
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Micron started in 1978 as a four-person semiconductor design company working from the basement of a Boise dental office. It grew through manufacturing, memory innovation and major acquisitions into a global DRAM and NAND supplier.
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SK hynix began as Hyundai Electronics in 1983, absorbed LG Semicon, restructured as Hynix and joined SK Group in 2012. Its later work on HBM placed the company at the centre of AI memory.
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AMD was founded in 1969 and spent decades competing across processors and graphics. The ATI acquisition, Lisa Su’s leadership, Zen architecture, Ryzen, EPYC and Xilinx reshaped the company.
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