Companies

69 entries, ordered by year of founding. Filter by decade, field, or status.

Name	Years	Status	Field	Founded by
Ericsson	1876–	Alive	Telecommunications	Lars Magnus Ericsson
AT&T	1885–	Alive	Telecommunications	Alexander Graham Bell
Ferranti	1885–1993	Dead	Early computers	Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Burroughs Corporation	1886–1986	Superseded	Business machines	William Seward Burroughs
General Electric	1892–	Alive	Conglomerate	Thomas Edison et al.
Tabulating Machine Company	1896–1911	Superseded	Data processing	Herman Hollerith
Honeywell	1906–	Alive	Conglomerate	Mark C. Honeywell
Xerox	1906–	Alive	Document technology	Joseph C. Wilson
Olivetti	1908–	Alive	Business machines	Camillo Olivetti
IBMInternational Business Machines, Big Blue	1911–	Alive	Mainframes	Charles Ranlett Flint
Tandy CorporationRadioShack	1919–2000	Superseded	Consumer electronics	Norton Hinckley & Dave Tandy
Bell LabsBell Telephone Laboratories	1925–	Alive	Research laboratory	AT&T / Western Electric
Remington Rand	1927–1955	Superseded	Business machines	James Rand Jr.
Texas Instruments	1930–	Alive	Semiconductors	Geophysical Service Inc. reorganization
Fujitsu	1935–	Alive	IT services	Furukawa Electric / Siemens joint venture
Hewlett-Packard	1939–	Alive	Instruments	Hewlett & Packard
Zuse KG	1941–1971	Superseded	Early computers	Konrad Zuse
Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation	1946–1950	Superseded	Early computers	Eckert & Mauchly
SRI InternationalStanford Research Institute	1946–	Alive	Research	Stanford University trustees
Bolt, Beranek and NewmanBBN	1948–2009	Superseded	Research	Bolt, Beranek & Newman
Wang Laboratories	1951–1999	Superseded	Minicomputers	An Wang
Commodore International	1954–1994	Dead	Home computers	Jack Tramiel
LEO Computers	1954–1964	Superseded	Early computers	J. Lyons & Co.
Sperry Rand	1955–1986	Superseded	Mainframes	Merger of Sperry and Remington Rand
Control Data CorporationCDC	1957–1992	Dead	Supercomputers	William Norris
Digital Equipment CorporationDEC	1957–1998	Superseded	Minicomputers	Ken Olsen & Harlan Anderson
Fairchild Semiconductor	1957–2016	Dead	Semiconductors	The Traitorous Eight
MITRE Corporation	1958–	Alive	Research	MIT Lincoln Laboratory spin-off
Amstrad	1968–2008	Superseded	Consumer electronics	Alan Sugar
Data General	1968–1999	Dead	Minicomputers	Edson de Castro
ICLInternational Computers Limited	1968–2002	Superseded	Mainframes	UK government merger
Intel	1968–	Alive	Semiconductors	Noyce & Moore
MITS	1969–1977	Dead	Microcomputers	Ed Roberts
Amdahl Corporation	1970–1997	Superseded	Mainframes	Gene Amdahl
Xerox PARCPalo Alto Research Center	1970–	Alive	Research laboratory	Xerox
Atari, Inc.	1972–1984	Superseded	Video games	Nolan Bushnell
Cray Research	1972–1996	Superseded	Supercomputers	Seymour Cray
IMSAI Manufacturing	1973–1979	Dead	Microcomputers	William Millard
Sinclair Research	1973–	Dormant	Home computers	Clive Sinclair
Digital Research	1974–1991	Superseded	Software	Gary Kildall
Tandem Computers	1974–1997	Superseded	Minicomputers	Jimmy Treybig
Microsoft	1975–	Alive	Software	Gates & Allen
Apple ComputerApple Inc.	1976–	Alive	Personal computers	Jobs, Wozniak & Wayne
Oracle Corporation	1977–	Alive	Databases	Ellison, Miner & Oates
Acorn Computers	1978–2000	Dead	Home computers	Hermann Hauser & Chris Curry
Inmos	1978–1994	Dead	Semiconductors	UK government
Lisp Machines, Inc.LMI	1979–1987	Dead	Lisp machines	Richard Greenblatt
Novell	1979–2014	Dead	Networking	Drew Major et al.
Apollo Computer	1980–1989	Superseded	Workstations	William Poduska
Symbolics	1980–1993	Dead	Lisp machines	Russell Noftsker
Osborne Computer Corporation	1981–1985	Dead	Portables	Adam Osborne
Silicon GraphicsSGI	1981–2009	Dead	Workstations	Jim Clark
Adobe Systems	1982–	Alive	Software	Warnock & Geschke
Amiga Corporation	1982–1984	Superseded	Home computers	Jay Miner
Compaq	1982–2002	Superseded	Personal computers	Canion, Harris & Murto
Lotus Development	1982–1995	Superseded	Software	Mitch Kapor
Sun Microsystems	1982–2010	Superseded	Workstations	Bechtolsheim, Khosla, Joy & McNealy
Borland	1983–2015	Dead	Developer tools	Philippe Kahn
Thinking Machines Corporation	1983–1994	Dead	Supercomputers	Danny Hillis & Sheryl Handler
Berkeley Softworks / GeoWorks	1985–2003	Dead	Software	Brian Dougherty
NeXT	1985–1997	Superseded	Workstations	Steve Jobs
Unisys	1986–	Alive	Mainframes	Merger of Burroughs and Sperry
Be Inc.	1990–2001	Dead	Software	Jean-Louis Gassée
Palm Computing	1992–2010	Superseded	Handhelds	Jeff Hawkins
Netscape	1994–2003	Dead	Software	Clark & Andreessen
Google	1998–	Alive	Search	Brin & Page
Mozilla	1998–	Alive	Open source	Netscape
Cray Inc.	2000–2019	Superseded	Supercomputers	SGI spin-off
JetBrains	2000–	Alive	Developer tools	Dmitriev, Belyaev & Safonov