Intel ships 1 billionth processor

Intel ships 1 billionth processor as the company reaches its 25th anniversary of Intel architecture.

 In 1978, a “hand-held” was a transistor radio, computers were gigantic mainframe, immobile machines, and the Internet was a project by a handful of research scientists. Twenty-five years later,Intel Corporation is marking its 25th year of delivering silicon products based on Intel architecture, and data from industry analyst firm Mercury Research* indicates that the company has now shippedmore than 1 billion x86 CPUs since that time, sparking a new era of computing and communication solutions.

“From the 8086 to today’s Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, Intel® Xeon