Happy Birthday Intel: 13 Amazing Facts About the Chip Giant


 

4. BunnyPeople: Intel’s Attire

In 1997, Intel came up with an ad featuring technicians dancing in special colourful suits, called and trademarked BunnyPeople. Its origin dates back to 1973, when the Fab technicians in Intel were made to wear Bunny Suit. It became famous to the extent that people used to visit the Cleanroom, the place where chips are fabricated, so that they can wear those suits, which has now become the company’s culture. Moreover, when the visitors left the lab, they were accompanied by Intel’s Bird Companion whose job was to make sure that no dust particles get accumulated on the bunny suits.

5. Cost of a Transistor

The price of a single transistor on a chip is about the cost of a single printed newspaper character. The first processor Intel 4004 had 2300 transistors embedded on it. The fingernail-sized processor gave as much computing power as the first ever computer, the room-sized ENIAC. Intel’s current processors have more than a billion transistors on them.