February 26, 2018, Updated April 21, 2020
The Intel 8088 chip, designed in Israel. Photo courtesy Wikipedia Commons
Intel sets up a chip design center in Haifa, its first outside the US. The first PC microprocessor, the Intel 8088 chip, was designed here in 1978 and went on to dominate the desktop computer market. Other significant Intel chips, the Centrino and Sandy Bridge, also were developed in Israel.