Founded in 1968 by chemist Gordon E. Moore, physicist and integrated circuit co-founder Robert Noyce, and venture capitalist Arthur Rock, Intel Corporation, commonly known as Intel, is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 series of instruction sets, the instruction sets found in most personal computers (PCs).