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...abandoning Intel. Microsoft announced that it would turn to IBM for the chips for its next video-games console, the Xbox 2, though it was Intel x86 chips that powered the original Xbox. Kevin Rollins, the new CEO of Dell--the world's biggest manufacturer of Intel PCs--mused publicly about the possibility of switching to AMD chips. (Rollins has since decided to stick with Intel.) Craig Barrett, the current Intel CEO, who will step down in May, went into mea culpa mode. "This is not the Intel we know," he wrote in an e-mail to employees...
Today, according to Mercury Research, Intel chips are inside 87% of laptop PCs. And in February 2005, Centrino got an upgrade to help it run music and graphics better--stepping onto graphics chipmaker NVidia's turf. With successes like that, it's no accident that Otellini is respected by Intel insiders as a steady hand--a welcome change in a company famous for its bitter boardroom battles. "In the Andy Grove era, it was very raucous," says Andy Bryant, Intel's CFO. "It was not unusual to have loud arguments in public places. Paul is a firm believer...
Popkin says she has been a Mac user since the fourth grade. But she says her intermittent use of Windows PCs throughout her life allows her to make valid comparison between the two types of computers...
Last summer, Le Goues made the 25-minute drive each day from her home in Cortlandt Manor, NY to a research lab in Hawthorne, NY, where she worked from nine to five as a programmer for International Business Machines (IBM). IBM is one of several producers of personal computers (PCs) that use the Microsoft Windows operating system. These Windows PCs are the main competition for Macs...
...Windows] PCs since like the age of four…because my parents always have company-issued computers at home,” she says. “My mother and I actually have heated discussions about the whole computer thing...she has a lot of company pride...