#6 Intel

Happiness (out of 5): 4.04

Average salary: $75,000

Paul S. Otellini is CEO and President of Intel.

Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most of the personal computers. Intel , founded on July 18, 1968, is a portmanteau of Integrated Electronics. The company also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Intel was an early developer of SRAM and DRAM memory chips, and this represented the majority of its business until 1981. Although it created the world's first commercial microprocessor chip in 1971, it was not until the success of the personal computer (PC) that this became its primary business.

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