Today, silicon chips are everywhere. Learn how Intel makes its integrated circuits. The task of making these chips is no small feat.

Transistors are the building blocks of the microprocessor, which is the brain of the computer. Learn how a transistor is constructed on a chip, and how it controls the flow of digital information in a computer.

Learn about predecessors of today's computer memory chips and see how semiconductor memory chips store information. See how to spell your name using 1's and 0's instead of letters.

Intel builds fingernail-sized microprocessors that incorporate millions of transistors and perform millions of instructions per second. Learn step-by-step how these chips perform their magic.

Oxygen is the most abundant element on Earth. Silicon—the base material Intel uses to make computer chips—is the second most abundant element. Where can you find silicon? In common beach sand. See how Intel builds complex chips, layer by layer, atop wafers made of purified silicon.

"Clean your room!" takes on new meaning at Intel where the factories in which computer chips are made are thousands of times cleaner than hospital operating rooms. Learn why, and see what Intel manufacturing employees wear to work.

Find fast facts about Intel's family of microprocessors from the 4004 chip to the Intel® Itanium® processor in the Hall of Fame.

The Journey Inside^SM is an interactive, media-rich Web site that answers important questions about computers and the Internet through activities that help explain how technology works and impacts our society.