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Integrated Circuits In 1958 Jack Kilby fashioned the first microchip out of a single slice of silicon (it had one transistor); in 1959 Robert Noyce figured out how to get all the electronics on a chip talking. The invention spawned Intel, along with a thriving computer industry...
...head of sales in Asia for computer-chip maker Intel, Chen, 41, tapped emerging markets from China to Pakistan and turned the region into the company's top revenue producer. As Chen settles into his new post as head of sales worldwide, he will continue to work to develop nascent markets, adding Latin America and Russia to his plate. The Tai Chi devotee will also play a big role in Intel's push to place its chips in communications devices, from cell phones that send pictures to computers that access the Internet wirelessly...
...last month, when she presided over its rechristening as a high-tech "Future Store" designed to showcase and test interactive shopping technology. She was the star that day, but the shop's owner, German retail chain Metro AG, and its 39 partners in the venture - including the likes of Intel and SAP - are more interested in the response of people like Birgit Hüsken. She regularly uses the store's most prominent tool, the Personal Shopping Assistant (PSA) - a cart-mounted computer that advertises sales as she moves from section to section and keeps a running total of purchases...
...feed for the rest of the technology industry, at least for hardware," says Steve Cullen, director of semiconductor research at In-Stat/MDR, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based technology research group. Indeed, some tech heavyweights are coming out of the closet to say that the worst is over. Executives of Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, demonstrated guarded optimism about a tech rebound. "The thing we are really waiting for is an enterprise commitment to upgrade," said Intel chief financial officer Andy Bryant recently. It's not surprising that he sees it that way, since computers and servers used in businesses...
While an engineer at Intel in the late '90s, Ralston told the Times, he saw the IMAX movie Everest, which tells the story of a team of climbers whose attempted ascent turned deadly. Ralston was intrigued. He told the paper he quit the Intel job when he couldn't take three weeks to go climbing in Alaska. Since then, he has made a life of exploring the outdoors and following the jam bands Phish and String Cheese Incident while working at Ute Mountaineer in Aspen...