Word: compaq
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Darn Speedy Link Intel, Microsoft and Compaq say they're developing a way to deliver ultra-fast Internet access over ordinary telephone lines. You could be surfing at 1.5 million bits per second in the not-too-distant future. Full Story...
Promises of higher speed on the Web may come and go, but the Digital Subscriber Line is one you'd better believe in. Why? Because when the combined forces of Compaq, Intel, Microsoft and the Baby Bells join forces on a product, and say they'll have it in stores by Christmas, you can bet the bank you'll be unwrapping it this December. It makes commercial sense for all concerned: "Microsoft and Intel's business depends on increasing bandwith," says TIME senior writer and tech expert Joshua Ramo, "and the margins in the phone business suck...
...Grove is tough on people inside Intel, he is brutal with competition. Intel's current victims are Advanced Micro Devices and National Semiconductor, but no single firm poses much of a threat. Intel, says AMD CEO Jerry Sanders, makes it nearly impossible to get access to the big customers--Compaq, Dell, Gateway--that make for economies of scale. "That's where Intel makes it tough," says Sanders, another Fairchild alum. "In my view Intel goes right to the edge--and sometimes over it--to exclude people from providing chips to those guys...
That's not to say the pace of technological change is slowing. In fact, you haven't seen anything yet. Companies like Intel, Microsoft, Compaq, Cisco Systems and Oracle have plenty more cyber stuff on their drawing boards. What's in question is how much of it they will sell, how soon and at what price. One obvious problem is Asia. Tech companies were doing a lot of business there before the region's economies imploded. Intel, for example, has been getting 28% of its annual revenue there and will surely feel a sting from the slowdown...
...theory went like this: as the price of whiz-bang computers falls, demand will rise even faster. Looks like the theory was actually right. By autumn PC makers from Compaq to Hewlett-Packard to IBM were offering robust multimedia machines for less than $1,000--and nearly a third of all new PCs sold fell into that range...