The term 'Major Chipmaker' can be summarized as Intel, a five-letter company that is one of the world's largest chipmakers. Intel is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures computer processors and other related technologies. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.