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Robert Norton Noyce ( December ___MASK69___ , ___MASK34___  June 3 , ___MASK40___ ), nicknamed " the Mayor of Silicon Valley ," co - founded Fairchild Semiconductor in ___MASK27___ and Intel Corporation in 1968 . He is also credited ( along with Jack Kilby ) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name . Moore ' s law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years . The observation is named after Gordon Moore , the co - founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel , whose ___MASK72___ paper described a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit , and projected this rate of growth would continue for at least another decade . In 1975 , looking forward to the next decade , he revised the forecast to doubling every two years . The period is often quoted as ___MASK57___ months because of Intel executive David House , who predicted that chip performance would double every ___MASK57___ months ( being a combination of the effect of more transistors and the transistors being faster ). Microsoft Corporation ( commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS ) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond , Washington , that develops , manufactures , licenses , supports and sells computer software , consumer electronics and personal computers and services . Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems , Microsoft Office office suite , and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers . Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup . As of ___MASK25___ , it was the world ' s largest software maker by revenue , and one of the world ' s most valuable companies . Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows computer operating systems produced from ___MASK51___ to ___MASK12___ , which were based on the Windows 95 kernel and its underlying foundation of MS - DOS , both of which were updated in subsequent versions . This includes all versions of Windows 95 and Windows 98 . Windows ME is sometimes included . Windows Server is a brand name for a group of server operating systems released by Microsoft . It includes all Windows operating systems branded " Windows Server ", but not any other Microsoft product . The first Windows server edition to be released under that brand was Windows Server ___MASK52___ . However , the first server edition of Windows was Windows NT 3 . ___MASK10___ Advanced Server , followed by Windows NT 3 . ___MASK9___ Server , Windows NT 4 . 0 Server , and Windows ___MASK12___ Server ; the latter was the first server edition to include Active Directory , DNS Server , DHCP Server , Group Policy , as well as many other popular features used today . Dell Inc . ( stylized as ) was an American privately owned multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock , Texas , United States , that developed , sold , repaired , and supported computers and related products and services . Eponymously named after its founder , Michael Dell , the company was one of the largest technological corporations in the world , employing more than 103 , ___MASK80___ people worldwide . Santa Clara is a city in Santa Clara County , California , named after the Spanish mission that was established there in ___MASK31___ . The city ' s population was 116 , 468 at the 2010 United States Census , making it the ninth - most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area . Located southeast of San Francisco , the city was founded in ___MASK31___ and incorporated in ___MASK65___ . The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions , Mission Santa Clara de Asís , and was named after the mission . The Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the grounds of Santa Clara University . Saint Clare is the patron saint of Santa Clara . Windows Phone ( WP ) is a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune . Windows Phone features a new user interface derived from Metro design language . Unlike Windows Mobile , it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market . It was first launched in ___MASK81___ with Windows Phone ___MASK99___ . Windows Phone ___MASK6___ . 1 is the latest public release of the operating system , released to manufacturing on April 14 , 2014 . TenAsys ( rhymes with tenacious ) is a privately owned company providing real - time software and services based on the x86 Intel Architecture and Microsoft Windows operating system . x86 is a family of backward compatible instruction set architectures based on the Intel 8086 CPU and its Intel 8088 variant . The 8086 was introduced in ___MASK100___ as a fully ___MASK19___ - bit extension of Intel ' s 8 - bit based 8080 microprocessor , with memory segmentation as a solution for addressing more memory than can be covered by a plain ___MASK19___ - bit address . The term " x86 " came into being because the names of several successors to Intel ' s 8086 processor end in " 86 ", including the 80186 , 80286 , 80386 and 80486 processors . Lenovo Group Ltd . or shortened as Lenovo , ( formerly stylized as lenovo ) is a Chinese multinational technology company with headquarters in Beijing , China , and Morrisville , North Carolina , United States . It designs , develops , manufactures and sells personal computers , tablet computers , smartphones , workstations , servers , electronic storage devices , IT management software , and smart televisions . Since ___MASK75___ , Lenovo is the world ' s largest personal computer vendor by unit sales . It markets the ThinkPad line of notebook computers , IdeaPad line of notebook laptops , IdeaCentre line of desktops , Yoga line of notebook laptops , and the ThinkCentre line of desktops . Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft , the first version of which was released in ___MASK8___ . It is a processor - independent , multiprocessing , multi - user operating system . Microsoft Windows ( or simply Windows ) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed , marketed , and sold by Microsoft . It consists of several families of operating systems , each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible architecture . Active Windows families include Windows NT , Windows Embedded and Windows Phone ; these may encompass subfamilies , e . g . Windows Embedded Compact ( Windows CE ) or Windows Server . Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x ; Windows ___MASK4___ Mobile is an active product , unrelated to the defunct family Windows Mobile . Gordon Earle Moore ( born January 3 , ___MASK59___ ) is an American businessman , co - founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation , and the author of Moore ' s law . As of January 2016 , his net worth is $ ___MASK99___ . 3 billion . Intel Corporation ( also known as Intel , stylized as intel ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara , California ( colloquially referred to as " Silicon Valley ") that was founded by Gordon Moore ( of Moore ' s law fame ) and Robert Noyce . It is the world ' s largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers based on revenue , and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors : the processors found in most personal computers ( PCs ). Intel supplies processors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple , Lenovo ( formerly IBM ), HP , and Dell . Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets , network interface controllers and integrated circuits , flash memory , graphics chips , embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing .