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With some analysts predicting billion-dollar sales drops for the PC industry this year, and with Oracle dangling a $500 computer in front of consumers, you might expect to find Intel CEO Andy Grove sneaking a peek at other platforms. No chance. Grove's hole card: revolutionary Intel technology called MMX (matrix manipulation extensions) that will load already speedy Pentium chips with a set of fast multimedia instructions. Intel engineers say MMX is the company's greatest advance in a decade--bigger even than the Pentium...
Grove, who was in New York City last week to meet with analysts (word of another profitable year sent the stock up 5% last Friday), offered a glimpse of Intel's plans during an exclusive breakfast with TechWatch at the swank St. Regis Hotel. (Grove brought his own special cereal in a baggie, part of his diet since a bout with prostate cancer.) While Intel is guarding MMX details closely for fear of eating into Pentium sales, Grove promises enough agility and speed to handle glitzy applications, such as video telephony and 3D gaming...
...Intel's 64-bit processor is tailor-made for "tech-heads" who look upon the Pentium as dad's Buick...
...Hollywood's hardest-working filmmakers, including seriously surnamed stars Cruise, Hanks, De Niro, DeVito and Pacino. And the recent turmoil hasn't kept the agency from signing talent like Anthony Hopkins, Nick Nolte and hot newcomer Matthew McConaughey (the upcoming A Time to Kill) while forging multimedia ties with Intel and the creators of an innovative Internet Website known as The Spot...
...INTEL OUTSIDE...