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Behind every great fortune," Balzac wrote, "there is a crime." That's the contention of the stunning lawsuit filed last week by Digital Equipment Corp. against microchip giant Intel. The great fortune in this case comes courtesy of the Pentium microprocessing chip, which runs 85% of the earth's personal computers and helped feed Intel $6.45 billion in revenues in the first quarter of 1997 alone. The alleged crime is Intel's "willful infringement" on 10 Dig-ital patents in building the Pentium series. And the suggested punishment: damages that could run into the billions and an injunction against continued...
Digital's surprise assault was impeccably timed: the previous week Intel had celebrated the launch of next-generation chip Pentium II. And the day of Digital's suit, microprocessor upstart Cyrix quietly filed its own patent-infringement claim against Intel. Digital followed a day later with full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and San Jose Mercury News. Wall Street took the bait, wrist slapping Intel's soaring stock down $6 and backslapping Digital up $2 in the belief that the microchip David wouldn't rile Goliath unless it had a really, really good case...
...annual growth for a decade. Customers love Oracle because the software, though it costs millions, saves them even more. Shareholders adore the rich returns: $10,000 invested in Oracle five years ago would be worth $127,000 today. In the past year Ellison has signed deals with British Telecom, Intel and even Kellogg. With the help of Ray Lane--the president and coo who saved Oracle from fiscal shipwreck in 1991--Ellison has built one of the Valley's most reliable profit players...
Combine Apple's new operating systems with the PowerPC hardware--which by mid-1997 will run at twice the speed of Intel's fastest offering--and it is easy to see that Apple is not dying. Indeed, amid all the furor over Apple's reputed downfall in the past six months, sales of Mac O.S. computers are up 60 percent from their levels a year ago. --Mike J.B. Epstein...
Ironically, the world's last communist power largely relies on the FORTUNE 500 to advance its economic agenda. Whenever Congress considers China's MFN status, such companies as Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Intel, General Motors and IBM lobby on China's side. For Boeing, the stakes could not be higher: Beijing is expected to spend $124 billion on new planes over the next 20 years, making it the world's fastest-growing airline market. "When the U.S.-China relationship goes in the tank, so do our order books," says Boeing spokesman Thomas Tripp...