We have invested in California for five decades, since our founding in Mountain View in 1968.
Intel in California
Investing in California
We purchased our first piece of property – a 26-acre pear orchard on the corner of Coffin Road and Central Expressway in Santa Clara, California in 1970. Today, we have 15,000 employees across the state at three major sites in Santa Clara, San Jose, and Folsom, and at research and development sites in Irvine and San Diego. Santa Clara is home to Intel’s corporate headquarters and the flagship Intel Museum, which showcases five decades of Intel® innovations.
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Intel in Folsom
The Folsom site is a center of excellence for graphics, chipsets and solid state drives, delivering innovative technology and support for a range of devices and client platforms. With close to 6,000 employees, Intel is Folsom’s largest private sector employer, and one of the Sacramento region’s top 5 private employers. Intel Folsom employees are especially committed to the community, with more than 50% volunteering nearly 200,000 hours at local nonprofits each year.
Intel in the Bay Area
Santa Clara is home to Intel’s corporate headquarters and the flagship Intel Museum, which showcases five decades of Intel® innovations. The Santa Clara site is involved in engineering, design, research and development, and software engineering, and houses several corporate organizations, including sales and marketing, legal, supply chain, and human resources. With more than 6,500 employees, Intel is one of the largest employers in Santa Clara. In 2015, Intel acquired Altera, a leading California-based provider of field-programmable gate array technology. Now a part of Intel, the Programmable Solutions Group’s 1700 employees work on a broad portfolio of programmable logic solutions at our San Jose campus, which is also home to Intel’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center and Autonomous Driving Garage.
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