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...sight that the computer revolution has gone about as far as it can go. They argue that the size of the atom--and the electrons that surround it--puts a limit on how many transistors can be squeezed onto the surface of a silicon chip. The optimists, represented by Intel billionaire Gordon Moore, believe chips will keep getting smaller and faster at a predictable rate (which Moore famously described, in 1965, as a doubling of capacity every 18 months). The success of the computer industry is due in large part to the fact that Moore has been right. But even...
They just got two. First, Intel, the world's largest semiconductor firm, announced that its engineers had discovered a Houdini-like trick for stuffing twice the quantity of digital information in the same physical space on a chip. Then last week IBM unveiled what may be an even more significant advance: its researchers had found a way to replace the aluminum conductors in their microprocessors with copper, which is cheaper and faster. Says IBM vice president John Kelly, who has been experimenting with copper chips since the 1980s: "This...
...overseas computer market is where the biggest growth lies," says TIME San Francisco bureau chief David Jackson. "Intel has made the overseas market its number one target, with half their sales coming from outside the United States." The thinking behind the export drive is that since most foreign customers are starting from scratch rather than buying upgrades, why leave yesterday's models to languish on American shelves when they can be flogged overseas...
...Federal Trade Commission probes Pentium-chip makers Intel (TIME Daily...
...Federal Trade Commission probes Pentium-chip makers Intel (TIME Daily...