Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announcements, none has generated as much anticipation as the one to be made this week by Motorola, the largest U.S. supplier of semiconductors (1987 sales: $6.7 billion). The electronics giant has etched 1.7 million transistors into a three-chip microprocessor called the 88000 that it hopes will become a standard component of the next generation of high-performance computers. Motorola may be right. Even before the new product was formally unveiled, more than 30 prospective customers, including Data General, | Convergent and Tektronix, had formed a users group to set guidelines for designing hardware and software to take advantage...
...advocates of RISC, declaring that it was time to go back to basics, stripped away the nonessentials and optimized the performance of the 50 or so most frequently used commands. Says Ben Anixter, vice president at Advanced Micro Devices, a Sunnyvale, Calif., firm that is introducing its first RISC chip in two weeks: "It is like going from the complicated old piston airplane engine to the turbojet...
Organizers of the Harvard chapter say they seek to use a coed fraternity here as a bargaining chip to wrest a compromise from an adamant all-male faction, most in the West. McCollum says Harvard may experience difficulty in winning recognition from the national organization...
...times may have prompted Jardines to turn to a hyperfast-tracking American as the new taipan. Born in Massapequa, N.Y., Powers graduated from Yale, where he played football, and got a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1974. He began his career with the blue- chip Manhattan law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, then worked as a money manager for the Ford Foundation and as an investment banker for James D. Wolfensohn Inc. At Wolfensohn, Powers put together several deals for Simon Keswick, the outgoing taipan...
...bottom of the inning, the Eagles sent 15 men to the plate and exploded for nine runs off of Biotti, losing pitcher Cody Weston (0-1) and Chip Lippman. The highlight of the rally was Radachowsky's grandslam, which put B.C. ahead...