After a kick-start from Bill Gates, a Silicon Valley company aims to be the Intel Inside of the $2 (Erin Brodwin/Business Insider: Finance)

Erin Brodwin / Business Insider: Finance
After a kick-start from Bill Gates, a Silicon Valley company aims to be the Intel Inside of the $2 – * Business Insider recently toured the companys 600-person Emeryville, Calif. facility and tried two of its new products: a zero-calorie sweetener and a line of face creams which can be found at Sephora. After a valiant-but-failedattempt at disrupting the oil industry with microorganisms that churned out clean fuel, Amyris is …