Intel Named One of America’s Most Innovative Companies by Fortune

What's new: Intel has been named one of Fortune's Most Innovative Companies, recognizing the company's long-standing leadership in semiconductor innovation and its continued momentum in advancing artificial intelligence, computing and global semiconductor manufacturing.

Why it matters: Innovation has defined Intel since its founding-and continues to drive the company's transformation as it builds the technologies that power today's digital economy.

The big picture: From inventing the microprocessor to enabling the intelligence era, Intel innovations have helped shape entire industries, while laying the foundation for the next generation of computing.

By the numbers:

• 58 years of innovation leadership and counting
• More than 64,000 active Intel patent assets worldwide
• Intel technologies power an estimated 70% of the market for microprocessors in desktop and laptop computers

Zoom in: 5 Intel Innovations Shaping the Industry

A selection of Intel innovations with outsized industry impact that continue to inform the company's strategy today.

• The First Microprocessor (1971): Intel's 4004 put a computer on a chip-launching the modern computing era and enabling the digitization of entire industries. That foundation continues today, powering a new generation of AI-driven platforms that scale intelligence from data center to edge to client.
• x86 Architecture (1978-Present): Established the foundation for modern computing platforms across PCs, servers, and enterprise systems. x86 continues to evolve to support AI, cloud and high-performance workloads at global scale.
• Intel® Core™ Processors (2006-Present): Redefined PC performance and energy efficiency for mainstream computing. Today, the portfolio spans from Intel Core to Intel® Core™ Ultra, extending that legacy into premium, AI-powered PCs with built-in accelerators designed for next-generation client experiences.
• Advanced Packaging (EMIB 2018-Present: Foveros 2024-Present): Enabled chiplet-based architectures by integrating multiple dies into a single package. Advanced packaging is critical to scaling performance in AI, data center and high-performance computing workloads.
• Intel 18A Process Technology (2025-Present): Intel's next-generation semiconductor node, incorporating innovations such as RibbonFET gate-all-around transistors, and PowerVia backside power delivery. 18A marks a critical milestone in restoring process leadership and enabling the next wave of high-performance, power-efficient computing-especially for AI and advanced workloads.

What's next: Intel is advancing the innovations that will power the intelligence era.

• Scaling AI through open, heterogeneous systems: Enabling AI to run across data center, cloud, edge and client through open software stacks and interoperableplatforms that combine CPUs, GPUs, NPUs and accelerators-giving customers the performance, efficiency and control to scale AI on their terms.
• Advancing x86 as the CPU platform for the intelligence era: Evolving the world's most widely deployed compute architecture to meet the demands of AI-powering everything from AI PCs to hyperscale data centers, and serving as the control plane for increasingly complex, distributed workloads.
• Building a trusted, leading-edge foundry: Advancing process technology (including Intel 18A, Intel14A and beyond), pioneering innovations like RibbonFET and PowerVia, and scaling advanced packaging with EMIB and Foveros to energize architectures, delivering full-stack, co-optimized innovation backed by resilient, sustainable manufacturing and the largest leading-edge capacity in the United States.

Together, these pillars deliver something unique in the industry: US-based leading-edge R&D and manufacturing enabling an open, end-to-end compute platform-from silicon to systems to software-engineered to scale AI with confidence.

Bottom line: Intel's inclusion on Fortune's Most Innovative Companies list reflects both its history of foundational breakthroughs and its ongoing transformation to lead in AI, advanced computing and semiconductor manufacturing.