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...turnaround came so swiftly that the chipmakers are struggling to meet demand. Orders are running 50% ahead of shipments. If that continues, some electronics companies, particularly the many firms trying to break into the personal-computer business, may be unable to get enough chips. Already, Motorola and Intel have had to allocate supplies of some of their chips among competing customers. Says William Davidow, a senior vice president at Intel: "We're going to be living with considerable shortages for the next year...
...256K RAM, which has four times the memory capacity of the 64K and is expected to generate annual sales of up to $3.5 billion by 1987. At least six Japanese companies, led by Hitachi and Fujitsu, have shown samples of the 256K to customers. Several American firms, including Motorola, Texas Instruments and Mostek are gearing up to challenge the Japanese, but the leading contender is a newcomer to the chip wars, the Western Electric subsidiary of A T & T. Until now, Western Electric has produced chips only for its internal use in building telephone equipment or for the Government...
American firms are still far ahead in sales of microprocessors, chips that can perform computations and manipulate information, rather than just store it. In this market, the showdown is between Intel and Motorola. Intel may pull away be cause of its new alliance with IBM, the world's largest computer manufacturer. Last December, IBM bought 12% of Intel for $250 million, and this summer it increased its share to 13.7%. When IBM designed its immensely popular personal computer, the company chose an Intel microprocessor to be the heart of the machine. Because many companies are coming out with personal...
...resolution to Motorola Company, which asked the company to pull out of South Korea, was too vague, George Dallas '56 an alumni member of the ACSR, said last night. He added that since there was no clear precedent, committee members wanted to learn more about various companies involvement in South Korea...
...resolution asked Texaco to stop its sales to one South African military and police and the other resolution called for Motorola to cease its sales to the South African government, Kossan added...