Word: intel
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...turnaround came so swiftly that the chipmakers are struggling to meet demand. Orders are running 50% ahead of shipments. If that continues, some electronics companies, particularly the many firms trying to break into the personal-computer business, may be unable to get enough chips. Already, Motorola and Intel have had to allocate supplies of some of their chips among competing customers. Says William Davidow, a senior vice president at Intel: "We're going to be living with considerable shortages for the next year...
This time around, many U.S. companies, including Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and the Mostek unit of United Technologies, continued to build new plants even as the recession unfolded, that reason, they hope they can boost production as quickly as the Japanese can. At the moment, the Japanese semiconductor companies are also having trouble meeting demand for chips by customers in their own country...
American firms are still far ahead in sales of microprocessors, chips that can perform computations and manipulate information, rather than just store it. In this market, the showdown is between Intel and Motorola. Intel may pull away be cause of its new alliance with IBM, the world's largest computer manufacturer. Last December, IBM bought 12% of Intel for $250 million, and this summer it increased its share to 13.7%. When IBM designed its immensely popular personal computer, the company chose an Intel microprocessor to be the heart of the machine. Because many companies are coming out with personal...
...microprocessor, which is expected to have its peak sales in about five years and has twice the computational power of the 16-bit chip that is the current industry pacesetter. Western Electric, Hewlett-Packard and NCR Corp. have already unveiled 32-bit chips in hopes of passing Intel and Motorola in the microprocessor race...
Silicon Valley has become famous for a laid-back corporate-management style that includes hot-tub conferences. Now along comes Andrew Grove, president of Intel, a leading semiconductor maker, with the valley's first primer on business: High Output Management (Random House; 235 pages...