Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore incorporate N M Electronics; the company is renamed Intel Corporation the same year. Date sourced from entity attributes, surfaced consistently across the recon evidence base.
Per ev_003 (Posner & Zheng, SSRN 5245922, 2025), the DOJ settled the multi-firm no-poach conspiracy in 2010; a private class action subsequently settled at approximately $415M in 2014.
Intel completes the FPGA acquisition that becomes Intel Programmable Solutions Group / Intel FPGA. Subsidiary status is currently under standalone-spinoff consideration as part of the 2024–2025 restructuring.
Intel acquires the Jerusalem-based ADAS / autonomous-driving leader; Moovit later folded in. Mobileye IPOs in 2022 with Intel retaining majority ownership.
Pat Gelsinger returns to Intel as CEO after a 2012–2021 stint as VMware CEO, charged with leading the IDM revival. Reported 2021 compensation approximately $178.6M.
Mobileye Global Inc. (ticker MBLY) IPOs; Intel retains majority ownership and treats the position as a primary subsidiary asset.
Intel announces the Tower Semiconductor acquisition (Israeli analog/specialty foundry, ticker TSEM) as part of its foundry-services expansion strategy.
China's Cyberspace Administration declines to approve the Intel-Tower merger as a counter-strategy against US semiconductor consolidation; Intel terminates the deal August 2023. Very likely the most consequential single externally-imposed strategic constraint of the surfaced evidence (grounds kj_004).
The largest single CHIPS Act award to date is announced at Intel's Chandler, Arizona facility. Conditions restrict China capacity expansion, share buybacks, and executive compensation. As of March 2025, an initial disbursement of approximately $2.2B had been made (ev_007).
DID-confirmed Bluesky account patgelsinger.bsky.social created with bio "definitely pat gelsinger / im also apparently retired." Creation is roughly even chance contemporaneous-by-design with the December 2024 Intel CEO departure announcement; content-level authentication of the principal vs. impersonator question was not performed.
Per ev_001, Gelsinger steps down under board pressure after less than four years. David Zinsner (CFO) and Michelle Johnston Holthaus (CEO Intel Products Group) serve as interim co-CEOs through March 2025.
Lip-Bu Tan — former Cadence Design Systems CEO (~2009–2024) and Walden International chairman — assumes the Intel CEO seat in March 2025 after a prior board tenure during which he had reportedly resigned in frustration.
Cadence Design Systems pays approximately $140M in US export-control penalties (China-related) during or near the prior CEO tenure of ent_003. Linchpin event for kj_003.
Days after publicly calling for Tan's resignation as Intel CEO over his China ties, President Trump meets with Tan at the White House and calls him a success (ev_013). Direct demonstration that the China-nexus tension is active rather than historical.