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...SPECIAL EDITION L2000 This full-featured, feel-good laptop includes a 1.6-GHz AMD Turion processor, a 60-GB hard drive, 512 MB of RAM, a recordable CD drive with DVD playback and built-in wi-fi. For $50 you can add a DVD burner. Bonus for your social conscience: for every sale, HP is donating $50 to the Lance Armstrong Foundation...
...MBTA, citing a budget shortfall, pulled funding from several of its services—among them the $1 million-a-year service. That means that mass transit in Boston, even on the weekends, is once again shuttered by 1 a.m.—an hour before many bars close, amd at a time earlier than any other major U.S. transit agency...
...LCOS chips for Intel's holiday party. The company also blundered on its pricing of flash-memory chips, the kind found in cameras and the smallest of MP3 players; in both flash memory and chips for servers, Intel found itself losing ground to its biggest rival, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD...
...turn to IBM for the chips for its next video-games console, the Xbox 2, though it was Intel x86 chips that powered the original Xbox. Kevin Rollins, the new CEO of Dell--the world's biggest manufacturer of Intel PCs--mused publicly about the possibility of switching to AMD chips. (Rollins has since decided to stick with Intel.) Craig Barrett, the current Intel CEO, who will step down in May, went into mea culpa mode. "This is not the Intel we know," he wrote in an e-mail to employees. At an industry conference last year, he literally...
Doomsday predictions, of course, have surrounded Intel for years: that the PC market is maturing, that the competition is cutting into Intel's lead. Yet the company has managed to keep growing. Despite AMD's recent resurgence, Intel's position in the PC-chip business remains unchallenged, with a market share of nearly 90%. It is also a step ahead thanks to Barrett's farsighted investments in manufacturing. While AMD has one major semiconductor plant, Intel has four placed strategically around the world, churning out chips 24 hours a day. And unlike PC manufacturers and retailers, who have to deal...