Standards & Initiatives

Whether it's calling home on a cell phone or loading a new game on to a PC, our personal lives and global infrastructure rely on the stability and consistent performance of hardware and software. Intel invests significant resources in collaborating with organizations around the world to establish and maintain high standards for the technology that touches our lives.

Standards/industry groups ›

Intel pursues the latest technological advances by working with more than 100 standards and industry groups worldwide.

Computing and consumer electronics platform standards

Standards and industry groups

Networking and communications standards

Silicon and semiconductor standards

Software and web standards

Enhanced Ethernet for Data Center

Case studies ›

Intel pioneers innovation in the digital world by forming, leading, and contributing to a wide range of standards and specification-development organizations. Learn about the exciting technology standards we're working on now.

Digital home

Protection of digital transmission

Ethernet standards

Standard IEEE 802.11

Executive interviews ›

Find out what Intel executives are saying about standards and the role they play in the computing, communications, and consumer electronics industries.

Bruce Sewell: Intellectual property in standards

Craig Barrett: The importance of global standards

Pat Gelsinger: Global standards and spectrum policy reform

Patent-licensing practices ›

Learn about our patent-licensing practices for industry specifications and standards.

Initiatives ›

From broadband wireless delivery to industry-standard specifications, find out how Intel initiatives offer the right solutions at the right time.

Intel® Developer Network for PCI Express* Architecture

Modular communications platforms

Serial ATA

Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification