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...border in the middle of the night and then sailed to America. In New York City, he Americanized his name to Andrew S. Grove--Andy Grove. This immigrant's story has a gaudily triumphant sequel. In the fullness of the American dream, Grove became one of the founders of Intel (he's now chairman of the company, the world's largest maker of semiconductors), a pioneer of the information revolution and in 1997 TIME's Man of the Year...
...effort to market the car in Spanish-speaking countries--where no va means "doesn't go"--is a legendary blunder. And cross-language advertising is a bigger challenge than ever, as the first American company that tries to use the word pet in a French ad will find out. Intel is known for its cutting-edge technology, but the original translation of its Pentium IV chip was too edgy for Koreans; it means "chip of death." Kentucky Fried Chicken found good news and bad news when it went global with its "finger-lickin' good" slogan. In Chinese, it came...
MODERATE $299 INTEL POCKET CONCERT This loud little flash-memory player can hold 128 megs of MP3s (or two to four hours of music). Because there are no moving parts, it can't possibly skip. Intel is throwing in a $50 mail-in rebate through January that drops the price to $249. www.intel.com...
...Among tour participants: venture capitalists, investment bankers and scouts for Cisco, Intel...
...morning, as the Fed chairman settled into his usual bob-and-weave under oft-vapid questioning from senators and congressmen, that stability was falling away under his feet. Stock markets had opened with the bulls Wednesday after Intel and IBM met lowered Wall Street expectations and signaled that tech life was indeed going on. Big Blue didn?t even change its fourth-quarter outlook...