25) Establishing Intel on a Lease

  
A scene in Intel’s factory in 1970, right after its establishment

The photograph above is a scene at the Intel factory at the time of establishment in 1970, and during the guide, president Robert Noyce said, "In Silicon Valley production equipment can be borrowed with a lease." Today Intel rules as the world's largest semiconductor maker, but at that time it was only a venture company with less than 100 employees. The headquarters and factory building was also a rental factory of about 2,000 square meters. It was located on a single street which on the opposite side was the Mountain View head office and factory of Fairchild (the building was called "Rusty Building", as a rusted steel frame wrapped around the entire building). "It was so close that you could hit it with a stone," Mr. Noyce explained, half-jokingly. (Provided by Intel, USA)

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