Word: microprocessor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LEAP TO IT When you tell your kid to jump, does she ask, "How high?" No matter; if she's wearing Reebok's new Traxtar shoe, the shoe will answer for her. Designed for kids ages 6 to 11, Traxtar's built-in microprocessor notes how fast its wearer runs, jumps or leaps. As kids move to new performance levels, the shoe's display "pod" flashes and plays Pomp and Circumstance. TRAXTAR.COM, a companion website, offers codes to punch into the pod to make it play other songs. A pair costs $55 for tots and $65 for teens...
...playing DVD movies or running any of the rich programs in the vast, dark Quittner Collection, although the Athlon is supposed to handle multimedia much better, thanks to its 200-MHz bus, vs. the Pentium's 100-MHz bus. (Think of the bus as the highway between the microprocessor and the rest of the computer.) A spokesman for Intel pooh-poohed the importance of bus speed, saying the real bottleneck is elsewhere in the computer. As for all the other benchmarks that show AMD's chip being faster, Intel had no comment, though it has cut Pentium prices as much...
Even more ominous for the industry is the generation of information appliances touted as the next wave of microprocessor-loaded consumer goodies. What happens when you've got a Windows CE device running at 200 MHz in the palm of your hand and a cell phone with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like...
...Noyce joined with fellow Shockley "traitor" Gordon Moore to found Intel. Under Noyce's shirt-sleeves leadership, it soon produced a landmark memory chip and the so-called computer-on-a-chip, or microprocessor. By 1974 Intel was so successful that Noyce traded day-to-day management for industrywide concerns, like leading a consortium called Sematech to stave off foreign competition. He died...
...announced Wednesday the details of its antitrust settlement with Intel. The surprise deal, which is still subject to public comment, was struck last week on the eve of a major antitrust trial. The truce helps establish new limits on the exercise of market dominance. In the Intel case, the microprocessor giant has agreed not to withhold -- or threaten to withhold -- technical information as a way of getting companies to sign away intellectual property rights. Computer makers such as Compaq, IBM and Dell are highly dependent on Intel for advanced information when designing new computers that will make the most...