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They will use 3 1/2 inch disks and will come with a new operating system that will be much more `closed' than MS-DOS. IBM will also introduce a machine based on Intel's 80386 microprocessor, this machine will be able to operate at more than twice the speed...
...move was the most recent response to evidence that the work involved in creating microchips can lead to miscarriages. Other semiconductor manufacturers, such as Intel, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and Advanced Micro Devices, already encourage mothers-to-be to remove themselves from microchip production areas. The latest round of corporate concern originated with Digital Equipment, the computer-manufacturing firm, where a number of women production workers suffered miscarriages over the past five years. Digital commissioned a study of the problem by Harris Pastides and Edward Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's division of public health...
Nonetheless, almost everyone agrees that U.S. chipmakers needed emergency relief. In a slump for two years, the industry has laid off 65,000 workers and is expected to post total operating losses of $800 million this year. Even the most innovative stars have been humbled. Earlier this month Intel startled Wall Street by posting a record quarterly loss of $114.2 million. Advanced Micro Devices said it lost $46.9 million during the comparable quarter and announced its first layoffs in a decade, dismissing 500 of its 13,300 workers. Many smaller companies that have developed highly advanced manufacturing processes, notably...
...resulting glut of chipmakers and chips triggered sharp price cutting. The cost of a 256K dynamic RAM (random access memory) chip, for example, which can store more than 256,000 bits of information, fell from almost $40 to as little as $3. Says Andrew Grove, president of Intel: "There are just too damn many of us. It is trench warfare by the commercial armies of two countries...
...much relief from competition. They have already turned their attention to types of semiconductors that foreign rivals will find more difficult to copy. The chipmakers believe their future lies in fabricating relatively small batches -- thousands instead of millions -- of custom chips for specialized uses. Companies like National Semiconductor and Intel are moving away from commodity-like memory chips to concentrate on microprocessors and other products that perform more advanced functions...