Word: micros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Intel's competitors. If Grove is tough on people inside Intel, he is brutal with competition. Intel's current victims are Advanced Micro Devices and National Semiconductor, but no single firm poses much of a threat. Intel, says AMD CEO Jerry Sanders, makes it nearly impossible to get access to the big customers--Compaq, Dell, Gateway--that make for economies of scale. "That's where Intel makes it tough," says Sanders, another Fairchild alum. "In my view Intel goes right to the edge--and sometimes over it--to exclude people from providing chips to those guys...
...profits) come down. Again, take Intel. It supplies nearly 90% of the microprocessors in PCs worldwide--a more commanding grip than even Microsoft's stranglehold on PC operating systems. But to protect its position, Intel has cut semiconductor prices faster than anyone expected as rivals Cyrix and Advanced Micro Devices compete furiously to supply cheaper components for the $1,000 PCs now taking the world by storm. Intel's profit margin has eroded from nearly 63% a year ago to an estimated 58% today, says analyst Caroline Gangi at Lehman Bros. Margin erosion may be Intel's biggest problem...
...SMOKE IN YOUR EYES Several companies in Europe and the U.S. are marketing a new generation of micro-power plants small enough to fit in your basement. Not only do they generate electricity, but their excess heat warms the house. These new-age power plants are based on tiny engines and produce electricity less expensively than multibillion-dollar coal and nuclear plants...
...appliances, with the exception of micro-fridges and dorm-sized refrigerators, are illegal. Candles showing any evidence of having been burned are also not allowed...
...many benefits of applying atom lithography include the creation of high-precision length-standards, or micro-rulers, Thywissen says. Atom lithography also shows a way in which the circuitry that stores information in silicon chips can be etched with much finer detail than is possible under current methods of circuit definition...