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...Intel chairman Andy Grove, co-developer with Microsoft's BILL GATES of the industry standard "Wintel" PC, has seen the future of computing and it is...a Macintosh. Grove told TIME last week that he believes the extraordinary growth of the Internet is leading the industry into what he calls "the Valley of Death," a chaotic, destructive period of turmoil in which "the players will change, the technology will change and the devices will change." The PCs that sit on most people's desktops today are essentially general-purpose computers to which networking has been added as an afterthought. Future...
...business under threat from Microsoft, Potter has cleverly realized that the mobile-phone companies would be as nervous about Bill Gates as he was. The history of the PC business showed that hardware companies were caught up in a cycle of steadily declining prices, while Microsoft and chipmaker Intel captured the lion's share of the profits. "I think there is a great deal of concern in many industries that the added value in their industries doesn't get taken away by Microsoft," Potter says...
...YORK: Intel chairman Andy Grove, codeveloper with Microsoft's Bill Gates of the industry standard "Wintel" PC, has seen the future of computing and it is... a Macintosh. In an exclusive interview Wednesday, Grove told TIME Daily that the industry is entering what he calls "the Valley of Death," a destructive period of time in which "the players will change, the technology will change, and the devices will change." What started as general-purpose computers with networking capability added almost as an afterthought, he said, will metamorphosize into network machines that also do computing...
...talking about," says Grove. "Sometimes what Apple is doing may have an electrifying effect on the rest of us. It's nothing we couldn't have done, but Apple went ahead and did it." Apple's iMac, it should be noted, is built around processors made by Motorola, not Intel. And Grove is not entirely uncritical of the translucent blue box; like millions of die-hard Mac fans, he wonders about the lack of a floppy disk drive. "I would not have made that choice," says TIME's 1997 Man of the Year...
...sure, there will be plenty of action among the big guys in the near future. Too much money is still pouring in over the transom. And with Intel preannouncing better revenues last week, the personal-computer sector, dominated by S&P companies, is turning...