Asteroid 8080, Intel, was discovered on November 17, 1987 at Caussols, Alpes-Maritimes, France. It has a period of 4 years, 306 days and is slightly less than 5 miles in diameter.
It was named for the Intel 8080 microprocessor, ancestor of a series of microprocessors manufactured by the Intel Corporation and key to the "PC revolution" which did a great deal to advance astronomy worldwide.
The meaning of Intel, according to Henk Middelraad, is intelligence or computer strength.; other possibilities are microprocessors, particularly Intel ones, or the Intel Corporation.