Word: microprocessor
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...academic community took notice two weeks ago when Stanford chose a Silicon Valley entrepreneur as its 10th president. John L. Hennessy is currently Stanford's provost. Soon to be the school's first president with an engineering background, he is the co-founder of a successful microprocessor company, MIPS Computer Systems--and he's wealthy enough to never work again...
Venture capital is certainly not a novel concept for HMC. According to Meyer, Harvard first put money into venture capital in 1978, the year Intel introduced the 8086 microprocessor. HMC has set the 15 percent goal for private equity in1992...
Cisco's rise signifies a new phase of the technological revolution. Microsoft ruled the first phase, marked by decreasing microprocessor costs and cheaper data storage, which made the PC a household appliance. That confluence of technologies resulted in cell phones, game platforms, pagers and a host of other smart devices that are now in place...