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...precious (up to $900 for the newest models) and easy to conceal (the size of matchbooks when sealed inside their cases). And these days they are in high demand: the worldwide market for personal computers grew 8%, to $68 billion, in 1993. The main target of thieves is the Intel 486 chip that powers most new IBM PC and IBM-compatible machines; such chips are now in more than one-quarter of the world's 110 million personal computers. Also coveted is the newer and faster Intel Pentium chip, which the Santa Clara, California-based company recently developed...
...black markets. "Computer components are fast becoming the dope of the '90s because they're so easy to get rid of," says Kerby. In Silicon Valley thieves typically sell batches of chips for 50% of their market value, so the brokers they work with pay about $250 for an Intel 486 chip that might otherwise cost up to $500. The chip may change hands a dozen or more times within 72 hours, with each transaction pushing up the value. All that leaves an unsuspecting computer maker to purchase the chip at its regular price and install it in his product...
...discourage theft on a worldwide basis, Intel last month began etching serial numbers on its Pentium chips, and will do the same with its 486 line this summer. That will enable the company and law-enforcement officials to trace the chips to their source, and thus could make stolen goods harder to fence. With the numbers in place, Intel hopes its hottest products will avoid becoming hot chips...
...unlike his leading Democratic gubernatorial opponents, who also attended Harvard, the governor chose to delay his entrance into the political arena until after college, choosing instead to pursue his intel- lectual and artistic interests at Harvard...
Those considering the Power Mac for the "combination PC/Mac" functionality that Apple's promotional campaigns tease at should turn away. But those with a need for the Power Mac's number-crunching talent or who simply desire Intel Pentium-level performance in a Macintosh should take a walk over to TPC and try out these new machines...