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Computer hardware companies
- MicrosoftThe January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics put a microcomputer called the Altair 8800 on its cover, and two childhood friends saw an opening.
- GoogleGoogle began in January 1996 as a research project by two PhD students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
- Apple Inc.Apple Inc. started with two men selling everything they owned. Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen Bus. Steve Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator.
- IBMIBM, formally the International Business Machines Corporation, was born in Endicott, New York, on the 16th of June 1911, when a financier named Charles…
- NvidiaNvidia was founded at a Denny's roadside diner on Berryessa Road in East San Jose, where three engineers sat down in late 1992 and agreed to build a company…
- 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.
- AMDAdvanced Micro Devices was founded on the 1st of May, 1969, by Jerry Sanders and seven colleagues who had grown frustrated inside Fairchild Semiconductor.
- IntelIntel Corporation was founded on the 18th of July 1968, in a Mountain View garage of ambition by two men who had just walked away from one of the most…
- SonySony began in the rubble of postwar Tokyo with a capital of 190,000 yen and eight employees. Masaru Ibuka opened an electronics shop inside a department…
- LenovoLenovo was founded on the 1st of November 1984 in Beijing with just 200,000 yuan and eleven people who had never built a consumer product before.