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...Jobs' best-selling MP3 player. "What is the iPod?" Otellini asks, and his answer sounds strange from the mouth of a man with the well-manicured looks of a successful accountant. "It's my music machine, man. That's what you want. This," and here he gestures to a laptop across the conference room at Intel headquarters, "is my content machine. That [desktop] PC is my productivity machine. You have to start by thinking about the things people want to do with computers and work backward...
...Pentium 4 chip and scaled back its proposed speed from 4 GHz to 3.8 GHz. That was partly owing to technical complications; pack too many transistors onto a microchip, and you have magnetic resistance and overheating issues that require bulkier fans and suck up more battery life in your laptop. But the bigger problem is simply that most of us no longer have such a need for speed, at least when it comes to everyday applications such as e-mail, Web browsers and spreadsheets, which work just as well...
...consumer-friendly products over speedier chips in his speeches for the past four years (he calls the strategy by the awkward name "platformization"). He put the plan to work in 2003 with another of his pet projects--the Centrino--a set of chips specifically designed for wi-fi-enabled laptops. For wi-fi capability, all you really need is the Pentium M, the chip at the heart of Centrino, but Otellini wanted to sell a bundle of chips along with it that would help maintain a laptop's battery life (not to mention Intel's bottom line). Against the wishes...
Today, according to Mercury Research, Intel chips are inside 87% of laptop PCs. And in February 2005, Centrino got an upgrade to help it run music and graphics better--stepping onto graphics chipmaker NVidia's turf. With successes like that, it's no accident that Otellini is respected by Intel insiders as a steady hand--a welcome change in a company famous for its bitter boardroom battles. "In the Andy Grove era, it was very raucous," says Andy Bryant, Intel's CFO. "It was not unusual to have loud arguments in public places. Paul is a firm believer...
...officer was sent to Cruft Laboratory on 19 Oxford St. to investigate the theft of an unattended and unsecured silver Apple Macintosh laptop with carry bag for a total value...