Word: chip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CHIP IN FOR BLUE CHIPS Can't afford $125 for a share of GE? Buy it on the installment plan. Starting in mid-November, even the smallest investors will be able to buy partial shares of some 300 heavily traded stocks on Sharebuilder.com With no minimum required to open an account or make a trade, this site is geared for beginners--i.e., mutual-fund investors curious about stock picking or kids just cracking open their piggy banks--and charges only $2 a purchase ($1 for kids) and $20 a sale...
...hard to get this holiday season because of a liquid-crystal-display-panel shortage. Analysts say manufacturers will meet only 86% of demand this year, and you can expect longer wait lists for models with larger screens and higher resolution. The September quake in Taiwan threw off memory-chip production too. Rather than raising prices, some makers may end up giving less bang for your buck. Best advice: buy now or well after Christmas...
...former IBM engineer named Phil Adams who actually pinned down the problem and decided to take legal action. According to Adams, the problem - which resides in the chip's "microcode," the instructions that are actually burned into the chip itself - is especially persnickety because it can manifest itself in a variety of ways, randomly deleting or corrupting information on otherwise healthy disks. Once Adams was sure he knew what he was dealing with, he took it to a Texas law firm, which filed the suit. MORE...
With :07 remaining in the game, no timeouts and the score tied 6-6, the call seemed like a no-brainer--kick the chip shot and win the game. There would not be time for another play before overtime...
...heading off to Stanford. There, he and his students designed a microchip he called the Geometry Engine, which allowed computers to visualize objects in 3-D. Fruitlessly, he tried to license the thing to IBM, DEC and Hewlett-Packard, before starting Silicon Graphics to sell workstations with the chip. That's where Clark honed his distaste for venture capitalists, whom he saw as stealing his enterprise and putting it in the hands of managers. Clark never let that happen again, keeping control when he got financing for Netscape and Healtheon...