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...optimistic economic prognosis from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan prompted a bullish stock market to nose-dive. Wednesday's sell-off further weakened a market reeling from announcements of lowered profit expectations by Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. The technology-rich NASDAQ composite index sustained a massive 35.66 one-day loss, its largest point-drop since October 1987; it recovered almost 10 points by the close on Friday...
...practice, CISC chips in the form of Intel's x86 family are ingrained in the marketplace and cannot be ignored. But Intel has claimed the P7, scheduled to hit the market in the year 2000, will be a combination CISC-RISC (CRISC?) chip...
Also jockeying for position are innumerable hardware, software and electronics companies that provide the components for the information highway. They range from giants like Intel, Microsoft, AT&T and IBM to countless smaller companies, some of which may emerge as tomorrow's giants. Dozens of suppliers stand to rake in billions of dollars over the next five years as the telephone and cable companies construct their systems...
...Microsoft practically giving their hottest product away to any angst-ridden Harvard student just for the asking? After the public relations disaster surrounding Intel's Pentium chip and its inability to perform division on certain rational numbers, Microsoft is making an extra effort to ensure that Windows 95 goes to press with a minimum of bugs. Windows 95 contains a slew of new features-features that could easily translate into new headaches for users; Microsoft wants to avoid problems as much as possible by testing the product on willing guinea pigs...
While researchers at Intel and IBM debated the seriousness of the problem, customers who had bought -- or planned to buy -- Pentium-based computers were confused and often angry. Intel admitted last week that tens of thousands of customers have called about the problem. Easing its earlier hard line, the company agreed to replace a few thousand of the chips for buyers who requested a switch, and it will soon begin selling a corrected model. But to Robert Sombric, the data-processing manager for the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, government, Intel's decision to go on selling the flawed chips for months...