Word: microprocessor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immense popularity-and profit margins-of the 486 chips also convinced Intel to push back the introduction of its next generation microprocessor, the Pentium, by more than six months, Originally scheduled for release last fall, the Pentium, which was to become the 586 and is reported to run up to 10 times faster than the 486, is now slated to be shipped...
...largely to Yankee know-how in specialized chips. While Asian chipmakers continue to excel in mass-produced, low-margin areas like basic memory chips, U.S. companies are focusing on devices with more functions and higher profits. American semiconductor firms, for example, have always maintained a comfortable lead in microprocessors, the "brains" of computers, with about 90% of that market. The gap could widen even further, as U.S. companies roll out new products. Last week Digital Equipment introduced the new Alpha chip, which the Guinness Book of World Records anointed as the fastest microprocessor on the market. But the Americans...
...decline brought about by a diminishing share of the global market and faster growth elsewhere. Industry is the only lasting foundation of a country's power, and America is lagging behind in manufacturing, which is at the core of a nation's wealth. With the notable exception of the microprocessor, not one new product that has appeared in the past few years was made in America. For high-technology products, the U.S. has a positive trade balance only in those sectors in which it has had a semimonopoly for some time: aerospace and computers...
...kids in bed? The curtains closed? It's time to turn on the computer and start playing some of the hottest electronic games around -- games so hot that they threaten to melt your microprocessor. Welcome to the world of high- tech titillation, where characters perform feats of onscreen electronic eroticism that leave little -- or nothing -- to the imagination...
...abysmal showing in computers so far is somewhat baffling. Its scientists at Bell Laboratories have been on the leading edge of computing, playing a key role in developing such technology as the microprocessor. But the company has failed to convert high science into financial success. Its first commercial computers, a series of midsize machines called 3Bs, flopped largely because, at up to $100,000, they were overpriced. The company later formed joint ventures with Convergent Technologies and Italy's Olivetti to make personal computers under the AT&T brand. It also formed a partnership with Sun and made a number...