Unit #25 Objectives: American IT Companies

The objective of unit American IT Companies is to learn to recognize and understand the 15 key unit vocabulary terms. This is accomplished by completing the readings and other activities.

Unit Vocabulary

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a computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California that was founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke; famous for Flash, Photoshop and PDF technology among others

The Design and Layout professor advised us that most industry professionals use Adobe software.

a company founded in 1969 by former Fairchild Computer executive; second largest manufacturer of x86 processors; creator of world class GPUs;

AMD has a long history of litigation with former partner and x86 creator Intel

an American IT company founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in Cupertino, California

Apple Inc. is a large consumer IT company known for its quality products with innovative design and usability concepts.

a networking and other electronics company founded by Len Bosack, Sandy Lerner, and Richard Troiano in 1984.

In 2011, Cisco Systems announced it would shut down its consumer electronics devision.

a company specializing in enterprise application development and management, founded in April 1959 by Roy Nutt, Fletcher Jones and Bob Patrick

CSC is a leader in global outsourcing.

One of the world's largest and best known computer manufacturers known best for its mail-order direct sales approach (no stores) and highly customizable product offerings;

Dell computers are loved by almost everyone technical, but often less technical users are annoyed at their outsourced support services with difficult to understand technicians.

a company founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, and famous for search technology and cloud computing

Google's unofficial company policy is "Don't be evil", a phrase coined by engineer Paul Buchheit.

company founded in a garage in Palo Alto, California in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard

HP specializes in manufacturing computers, printers, networking, and related services.

world's largest x86 CPU producer founded in 1968 by Gordon E. Moore and Robert Noyce

Intel invented the 4004, the world's first microprocessor in 1971.

a large multi-national corporation headed in the United States and responsible for many innovations including the hard disk drive, computer "families", and the PC architecture

The man worked for IBM for so long he could remember the days when everyone wore a lab coat.

The largest software developer in the world; well-known for Windows and their Office suite productivity software

The college student wanted to work for Microsoft because it was the biggest and richest software company in the world.

a company specializing in GPUs and chipsets, founded in 1993 by Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem;

NVIDIA is very popular with gamers and responsible for the Geforce line of graphics cards.

one of the major companies developing database management systems and enterprise resource planning software.

The database professor told us that Oracle Corporation had the best overall reputation for scalability and reliability in the industry.

a company founded in 1982 by Gary Hendrix and specializing in artificial intelligence and antivirus software

Symantec is famous for their antivirus software.

a company founded in 1970 by Alvin B. Phillips, which is the world's largest manufacturer of hard disk drives

In 2010, Western Digital was the first company to ship a 3 TB hard drive.