Notice of Annual Stockholders' Meeting
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DO WONDERFUL NOTICE OF ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING Intel was built with a purpose: to ponder what might be possible—to imagine, question, and then do wonderful things in pursuit of a better future. Our 50th anniversary is an important moment for us to honor our heritage and accomplishments of the past while celebrating how we’re creating a bright future for Intel today and a better world tomorrow. 1968 Intel is founded. 1968 – A NEW VENTURE 1985 – FOCUS ON MICROPROCESSORS Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore leave Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel exits the DRAM business that was fundamental to its early incorporate their new venture as N M Electronics. Soon after, they success to concentrate on microprocessors. purchase the rights to use the Intel name from a company called Intelco. 1988 – INTEL FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED 1971 – IPO AND 4004 With a commitment to improving lives around the world, the Intel Foundation invests in science, technology, engineering, and Intel goes public at $23.50 per share, raising $6.8 million, and îâõéæîâõêäô¡ÚÛÌÔ¢ñóðèóâîôñóð÷êåæôåêôâôõæóóæíêæçâïåâîñíêįæô íâöïäéæôõéæøðóíåĕôįóôõäðîîæóäêâííúâ÷âêíâãíæîêäóðñóðäæôôðó the impact of employee donations and volunteerism. the 4004. 1993 – PENTIUM® PROCESSOR ARRIVES 1979 – FORTUNE 500 A Fortune cover story heralds Intel’s powerful new processor as the Intel debuts on the Fortune 500 at position 486, and Fortune leading player in “The New Computer Revolution.” names Intel one of 10 “Business Triumphs of the Seventies.” ARTIFICIAL 5G AUTONOMOUS Intel at 50 Innovation platform INTELLIGENCE NETWORKS DRIVING for a new era 2068 The future is what we make it. 2018 Transforming from PC to data-centric. 1999 – JOINING THE DOW 2011 – A NEW DIMENSION IN TRANSISTORS Intel is added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market Intel’s 3-D Tri-Gate transistors represent a fundamental departure index. çóðîõéæİâõõóâïôêôõðóôõéâõéâ÷æñðøæóæåæ÷æóúåâúåæ÷êäæôçðó years, boosting computing performance to new levels. 2003 – THINNER, LIGHTER LAPTOPS 2015 – TRANSFORMING FOR DATA-CENTRIC ERA Intel® Centrino® processor technology brings high performance, longer battery life, and integrated wireless LAN capability to a new Intel acquires Altera, signals transformation for growth in data- generation of laptops. driven markets like AI and autonomous driving. 2008 – LEADING IN GREEN POWER 2018 – ADVANCING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION Intel becomes the largest voluntary corporate purchaser of green ÐïõæíĕôÜÚøðóìçðóäæóæİæäõôõéæñæóäæïõðçøðîæïâïå power in the U.S., and continues to increase its investment in underrepresented minorities available in the U.S. skilled labor subsequent years, with 100% of its U.S. and European power market. coming from renewable sources by 2018. Intel’s impact on the world has been felt through constraints. It will power experiences informed a progression of tech waves, including the by data that are always-on, always-learning, personal computer, the Internet, and cloud and able to excel at specialized tasks. With computing. The next and even more profound our manufacturing and engineering expertise, DATA-RICH digital transformation is the integration of we continue to deliver the products and computing into virtually every human activity. technologies that are the foundation for the WORLD world’s innovation. Êðîñöõêïèêôâãðöõõðãæäðîæêïįïêõæíúîðóæ diverse. It will evolve into new form factors and adapt to extreme cost and environmental LETTERFROMYOURCHAIRMAN ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE LEADERSHIP 2018 was Intel’s 50th anniversary, a milestone year and the most profitable in Intel’s history. As reflected in the Our Board believes that Intel’s focus on corporate governance preceding pages, our history has been marked by our and corporate responsibility creates value for the company, our constant drive to advance technology to do wonderful stockholders, and other stakeholders by identifying ways for things in pursuit of a better future. Intel is in the midst of technology to benefit the environment and society while also a significant strategic evolution from a PC-centric to a helping us mitigate risks, reduce costs, protect brand value, and data-centric company, delivering products that play identify market opportunities. With the Board’s oversight, we critical roles in processing, storing, analyzing, and have embedded corporate responsibility and sustainability sharing data. The client computing business is healthy considerations into our corporate strategy, compensation, and an important source of profits. We believe that the disclosure, and long-term goals to maintain and advance strategic investments we have made in a product sustainable stockholder value. We set ambitious goals for Intel portfolio spanning the cloud to edge computing, and make strategic investments to advance progress in the including in new and growing opportunities such as areas of diversity and inclusion, environmental sustainability, memory, autonomous driving, and 5G, will help create supply chain responsibility, and social impact, and collaborate new value for Intel. Intel is building the foundation for with others to achieve positive societal impact on key issues— technology’s data-driven future. from proactively addressing climate and water risk, to working to eliminate risks of forced and bonded labor. To reinforce and align our executives to these goals, a portion of the operational performance component of our annual incentive cash program is tied to key corporate responsibility goals. This proxy statement discusses many of our corporate responsibility and corporate governance perspectives and achievements, but I want to highlight a few that particularly reflect our values and culture. ATTRACTING AND RETAINING THE BEST TALENT “It has been a remarkable We seek to attract and retain talented and engaged employees who can deliver their workplace best every day. This means progression from our early making Intel a rewarding place to work, a company which our employees are proud to be a part of, and an environment beginnings as a start-up in memory where we promote diversity and inclusion. In 2018, we met our to our leadership in personal goal to achieve full representation of women and underrepresented minorities in our U.S. workforce, two years computing and now to our evolution ahead of schedule. With approximately 85% of our 107,400 employees working in technical roles, our success depends on to a data-centric company employees understanding how their work contributes to the company’s overall strategy. We use a variety of channels to generating annual revenue of more facilitate open and direct communication, including open forums with executives; quarterly Organizational Health Polls; than $70 billion.” and engagement through more than 30 different employee resource groups, including the Women at Intel Network, the Network of Intel African American Employees, the Intel Latino —Andy D. Bryant, Network, and others. Chairman of the Board FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY We are committed to transparency and performance improvement in environmental sustainability and have established public goals regarding, among other things, reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, investing in ATTENDING THE ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING renewable energy, conserving water, and reducing waste generation. We focus on reducing our own direct climate We look forward to your attendance virtually via the Internet, “footprint”—the emissions resulting from our own operations, or by proxy at the 2019 Annual Stockholders’ Meeting. We our supply chain, and the marketing and use of our products. will hold the meeting at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, We also focus on increasing our “handprint”—the ways in May 16, 2019. You may attend, vote, and submit questions which our technology can help others reduce their footprints. during the annual meeting via the Internet at In addition, we collaborate with others to drive industry-wide https://intel.onlineshareholdermeeting.com. improvements and policy change. We carry this focus to our While our Annual Stockholders’ Meeting is only one of the supply chain as well, actively collaborating with others and forums in our year-round engagement with stockholders, it is leading industry initiatives on key issues such as advancing an important one. As physical attendance at meetings has responsible minerals sourcing, addressing risks of forced and dwindled, web participation has grown significantly, and has bonded labor, and improving transparency around climate proven to be substantially more popular and effective at and water impacts in the global electronics supply chain. enabling stockholder participation, while saving the company’s and investors’ time and money and reducing our environmental impact. Our virtual Annual Stockholders’ STOCKHOLDER AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT Meeting also enables non-stockholders to view our meeting. As in past years, stockholders can submit questions ahead of Engagement with our stockholders is an important part of our or during the meeting through the designated websites. We Board’s corporate governance commitment. Our integrated continue to work with industry groups and our stockholders outreach team meets with a broad base of investors to enhance our virtual Annual Stockholders’ Meeting and throughout the year to discuss corporate governance, welcome your suggestions on how we can continue to make it executive compensation, corporate responsibility practices, more effective and efficient. and other matters of importance. Our team reports to the