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...Perhaps more wounding was the fact that longtime allies seemed to be abandoning Intel. Microsoft announced that it would 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...
...unbranded platform for desktop computers (dubbed Desktrino by company insiders) that takes advantage of Intel's dual-core technology. Dual-core puts two brains on the same chip, which makes it easier to run multiple applications at the same time. But Desktrino may be outmoded before it is born. IBM, Sony and Toshiba took a surprise lead recently when they announced production of their Cell processor, which has eight brains to Desktrino...
...according to Feng, treating it so inexpertly that the company caused more pollution. Feng's younger brother Bo, also one of China's leading VCs, advised him against an investment. "It didn't look like a winner," admits Feng. But with his guidance, Dongjiang now boasts clients such as IBM, bringing in an average of $1 million a month, extracting copper from chipmaking by-products and detoxifying what's left over free of charge...
...according to Feng, treating it so inexpertly that the company caused more pollution. Feng's younger brother Bo, also one of China's leading VCs, advised him against an investment. "It didn't look like a winner," admits Feng. But with his guidance, Dongjiang now boasts clients such as IBM, bringing in an average of $1 million a month, extracting copper from chipmaking by-products and detoxifying what's left over free of charge...
...couple in cyberspace. It was a relatively straightforward advertisement offering the services of their husband-and-wife law firm to aliens interested in getting a green card -- proof of permanent-resident status in the U.S. The computer that sent the message was a perfectly ordinary one as well: an IBM-type PC parked in the spare bedroom of their ranch-style house in Scottsdale, Arizona. But on the Internet, even a single computer can wield enormous power, and last April this one, with only a tap on the enter key, stirred up an international controversy that continues to this...