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...investors, this is a good time to contemplate such a turn. Tech stocks have repaired their millennial meltdown, giving you another chance to sell high, and you've seen that a "diversified" portfolio of Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Lucent and Yahoo doesn't offer much panic protection. Tech remains a great place to be long term--but not exclusively...
Some trends in personal computers never go away. They get faster. They look more and more like hard candy. And they get lighter and thinner. Two announcements this week should go a long way toward advancing that last trend. One is from the chip giant we know and love, Intel. The other is from Transmeta ? Silicon Valley's most secretive and mysterious startup...
...Intel's announcement, scheduled for this morning, focuses on what it calls its SpeedStep technology. (The project was originally code-named Geyserville, for reasons best known to Intel.) The company will unveil two new Pentium III processors designed for laptops, rated at 600 and 650 MHz, respectively ? faster than all but the fastest desktop machines. MORE...
...unprecedented growth rate, Chambers believes he has to remake the company into a great consumer brand. "Three years ago, we didn't care if anyone knew who we were," he admits. "The decisions that mattered were made deep inside companies." Today, making its brand as well known as Intel's or Hewlett Packard's is vital to Cisco's mission of building the New World Network...
Even as the company has grown to become the king of the data network, it has remained, in many consumers' minds, a question mark. Ask most people what Microsoft or Intel do, and they'll tell you. But Cisco? "I don't know," says Harriet Sumner, 30, a customer-service manager for a computer-game company, "but I own the stock...