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Computer hardware companies
- MicrosoftOn the 4th of April 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen established Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their first product was a BASIC interpreter for the…
- GoogleIn August 1998, a check for $100,000 arrived at the front porch of David Cheriton's home in Palo Alto. Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems…
- Apple Inc.On the 1st of April 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak established Apple Computer Company in the garage of Jobs's parents' home on Crist Drive in Los Altos…
- IBMOn the 16th of June 1911, four separate companies merged in New York State to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
- NvidiaOn the 5th of April 1993, three engineers named Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem established Nvidia in Santa Clara, California.
- HisenseQingdao Number 2 Radio Factory opened its doors in September 1969. The small facility produced a radio under the brand name Red Lantern as its first product.
- AMDJerry Sanders stood at the edge of a new world on the 1st of May 1969. He incorporated Advanced Micro Devices with seven colleagues from Fairchild…
- IntelOn the 18th of July 1968, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce stood in a small office in Mountain View, California, to incorporate a new company.
- SonyIn 1946, Masaru Ibuka opened a small electronics shop inside the Shirokiya department store building in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district.
- LenovoOn the 1st of November 1984, eleven engineers from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy Sciences gathered in Beijing to establish a…