I don't see anything in your quote or link that suggests that Intel was anything but a money making venture. To "develop some product or technology which no one

I don't see anything in your quote or link that suggests that Intel was anything but a money making venture. To "develop some product or technology which no one has yet done" makes that pretty clear to me. And they didn't stay small either, now ranked 46 on the Fortune 500. By the way, Gordon Moore was worth an estimated 7 billion when he died earlier this year.