Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in Silicon Valley. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer on the basis of revenue, and is the developer of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs). Incorporated in Delaware, Intel ranked No. 46 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.

Intel supplies microprocessors for computer system manufacturers such as Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.

FPGA is an acronym for field-programmable gate array. An FPGA is an integrated circuit whose electrical functionality can be changed, even after the device is shipped to customers in the field. FPGAs offer incredible flexibility and cost efficiency with circuitry that can be reprogrammed for different functionalities. The Intel FPGA Add-on for oneAPI Base Toolkit is a specialized component for programming such reconfigurable FPGA devices.