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...chipmakers are looking ahead to production of a 32-bit microprocessor, which is expected to have its peak sales in about five years and has twice the computational power of the 16-bit chip that is the current industry pacesetter. Western Electric, Hewlett-Packard and NCR Corp. have already unveiled 32-bit chips in hopes of passing Intel and Motorola in the microprocessor race...
Next day in Silicon Valley, there was a 45-minute royal tour of a Hewlett Packard microchip factory. The Queen is to get, courtesy of the Government, the company's $24,000 HP 250 business computer system. It will be installed at Buckingham Palace, presumably to help manage the breeding and feeding of her dozens of Thoroughbreds...
...representative of Hewlett-Packard, an American firm heavily involved with micro-chip technology, recently told a Harvard Business School group that America's share in the global electronics market has dropped from a post-war 100 percent to a current 25 percent, with Japan and other Asian nations picking up the slack. He did not, though, attribute this decrease to the inability of American goods to compete in world markets but to the decline in quality and numbers of science teachers in high schools...
...much of their time on more serious excursions. Philip is fascinated by technology, and they will visit the Rockwell International plant in Los Angeles, where the Queen could take a giddy ride in the shuttle flight simulator. In Cupertino, unofficial capital of Silicon Valley, they will tour the Hewlett-Packard plant and watch white-suited workers make micro chips. In San Diego, while the Queen peruses the Old Globe Theater, Philip will talk to the animals at the city's famed zoo. In order to ensure that the caged beasts growl for the Prince, their lunch that day will...
...Boyum (H) def. S. Packard, (T). 15-11, 15-7, 18-16; 2. K. Jornigan (H) def. W. Baker (T), 15-10, 11 -15, 15-11, 15-3; 3. G. Lemmon (H) del. M. Scott (T). 15-11, 15-12, 12-15, 15-10; 4 J. Lubowitz (H) def. B. Allen (T), 15-12, 15-6, 18-16 5. J. Dinneen (H) def. S Roy (T). 15-11, 15-10, 15-7; 6. S. Brog (H) def. P. Lenard (T). 15-7, 18-14, 18-17; 7. D. Segal (H) def. J. Vidler...