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...turnaround came so swiftly that the chipmakers are struggling to meet demand. Orders are running 50% ahead of shipments. If that continues, some electronics companies, particularly the many firms trying to break into the personal-computer business, may be unable to get enough chips. Already, Motorola and Intel have had to allocate supplies of some of their chips among competing customers. Says William Davidow, a senior vice president at Intel: "We're going to be living with considerable shortages for the next year...
...issue came to a head early last year, when Fairchild and Intel Corp., another local chipmaker, reported two major leaks in as many months. At the Fairchild plant in San Jose, workers discovered that a faulty storage tank had discharged some 13,000 gal. of a mildly carcinogenic solvent called TCA into the underground water supply. A few weeks later, Intel announced that a concrete vault had leaked, and that traces of a strong carcinogen, TCE, had turned up in a farmer's well near by. Fairchild has spent $10 million cleaning up its spill, and the company steadfastly...
...from parts bought from outside suppliers and is selling it through retail outlets like Sears and ComputerLand, as well as its own sales network. The company has begun offering discount prices and introducing new products at an accelerated rate. Last December IBM spent $250 million to acquire 12% of Intel, a leading computer-chip maker based in Santa Clara, Calif. In June IBM paid $228 million for a 15% stake in Rolm, also of Santa Clara, a major producer of telecommunications equipment. IBM plans to use Rolm to help create the so-called electronic office. Says Ulric Weil...
...happened to us was a message to the Japanese that if they have any thought of entering the market with a low-to-medium-range mainframe, they had better be prepared to compete at an extremely low cost." Apple's Jobs believes that IBM's investments in Intel and Rolm are at least partially intended to strengthen IBM's ability to compete with Japan...
...chips also began incorporating more circuits. But even such so-called large-scale integration had a drawback. With the circuits rigidly fixed in the silicon, the chips performed only the duties for which they were designed. They were "hardwired," as engineers say. That changed dramatically in 1971, when Intel Corp., a Silicon Valley company founded by Noyce after yet another "defection," unveiled the microprocessor. Designed by a young Intel engineer named Ted Hoff, it contained the entire central processing unit (CPU) of a simple computer on one chip. It was Babbage's mighty mill in microcosm...