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...While many customers swear by their easy-to-use Apple machines, the company, based in Cupertino, California, commands just 8% to 10% of the $75 billion market for personal computers and has been stuck at that level since 1984. The market is ruled by software giant Microsoft and chipmaker Intel, whose products run IBM-compatible machines, accounting for an astonishing 80% of the personal computers used around the world. "Apple still makes the best desktop systems out there, but it doesn't matter," says Richard Shaffer, president of Technologic Partners, a computer consulting firm. "With just a 10% market share...
...Intel in the past eight years has turned a $203 million loss into a $2 billion-plus profit and become, since 1992, the world's top producer of semiconductors, knocking Japan's NEC out of the No. 1 spot. Primarily it did so by picking out and pushing one product line: microprocessors, the tiny chips that serve as the brains of computers. It was a gutsy move, since microprocessors are harder to make and require far more research and development than the mass-produced memory chips that Japanese firms have been turning out at prices Intel could not match...
There is another side to the overseas-success story. For all the triumphs of Compaq, Intel and other companies, Japan still dominates many high-tech fields. Its companies, for example, control 95% of the flat-screen-display market, a key area of computer technology, and Asian companies have pushed the U.S. out of the disk-drive business. At the same time, U.S. competitiveness has been vastly enhanced by a trend that could be reversed at a moment's notice -- the cheapening of the exchange value of the dollar, which lowers the price of American goods to foreign buyers. Says General...
...chip itself has provoked bitter conflict within IBM. Among other things, IBM hoped the PowerPC would break the stranglehold that Intel has on the production of chips for IBM-compatible personal computers. The partners also sought to end the dominance of Microsoft as far and away the largest provider of the operating system, or master software, that runs the IBM compatibles. But Corrigan had loudly doubted the wisdom of the PowerPC strategy before he stepped down as head of the personal-computer business last week, arguing that Intel and Microsoft were too entrenched to be dislodged by the new chip...
...particular, the new 755 will incorporate the 750's brilliant 10.4-inch active matrix screen technology as well as integrated audio for multimedia applications. Buyers of the 755 will be able to outfit their machine with either Intel's 50 MHz 486DX2 or 75 MHz 486DX4 microprocessors, the fastest of their kind...