Word: groves
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...predictions of impending devastation in the PC industry, Grove thinks it's unlikely. His basis for that judgment? The same organ that digests his special cereal. "When I first came to this country in the 1950s from Hungary, people were mesmerized by cars. That's the kind of conversation you hear today about computers," he says. "Demand will stay strong." MMX, due this fall, may help...
With some analysts predicting billion-dollar sales drops for the PC industry this year, and with Oracle dangling a $500 computer in front of consumers, you might expect to find Intel CEO Andy Grove sneaking a peek at other platforms. No chance. Grove's hole card: revolutionary Intel technology called MMX (matrix manipulation extensions) that will load already speedy Pentium chips with a set of fast multimedia instructions. Intel engineers say MMX is the company's greatest advance in a decade--bigger even than the Pentium...
...Grove, who was in New York City last week to meet with analysts (word of another profitable year sent the stock up 5% last Friday), offered a glimpse of Intel's plans during an exclusive breakfast with TechWatch at the swank St. Regis Hotel. (Grove brought his own special cereal in a baggie, part of his diet since a bout with prostate cancer.) While Intel is guarding MMX details closely for fear of eating into Pentium sales, Grove promises enough agility and speed to handle glitzy applications, such as video telephony and 3D gaming...
...were unquestioningly patriotic and accepted these discomforts. What we could not make sense of was a tragedy in a Boston nightclub. The Coconut Grove fire in the fall of 1942 killed hundreds of young people, including a Radcliffe classmate. It was as near as I had yet approached death; my date and I had tried to go there that evening but the club was full and we were turned away...
...betrayed by Judas and wasn't resurrected on Easter. Next they'll be telling us that Christmas is the birthday of Santa Claus. Any thinking person must question the objectivity of a panel of self-appointed "experts" who have their own agenda for rewriting history. GARY YAGEL, Pastor Shady Grove Presbyterian Church Germantown, Maryland...