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Behind every great fortune," Balzac wrote, "there is a crime." That's the contention of the stunning lawsuit filed last week by Digital Equipment Corp. against microchip giant Intel. The great fortune in this case comes courtesy of the Pentium microprocessing chip, which runs 85% of the earth's personal computers and helped feed Intel $6.45 billion in revenues in the first quarter of 1997 alone. The alleged crime is Intel's "willful infringement" on 10 Dig-ital patents in building the Pentium series. And the suggested punishment: damages that could run into the billions and an injunction against continued...
Like the first release of RealAudio, there are some problems with the quality of RealVideo broadcasts, and sites frequently don't work quite right. In fact, video takes up so much band width that you have to have an ISDN or direct connection (like our Harvard connectivity) and a Pentium or PowerPC-based computer...
Moves like these have kept Intel atop the world's fastest-changing industry. Thanks to the popularity of its succeeding generations of chips, from the 386 to the 486 to the Pentium, no other chipmaker has as much influence over how personal computers process information. The company employs 1,000 chip designers, and spent $1.8 billion in R. and D. last year just to keep up with the latest technological advances...
With such challenges, it's no wonder that Grove's motto (and title of his latest book) is "Only the Paranoid Survive." Andy Grove is clearly a survivor. After successful treatment for prostate cancer last year, the 60-year-old executive stays as trim as a Pentium chip by bicycling, skiing, jogging, kayaking and swimming...
...entry-level pricing for most of these multimedia Pentium systems is about $2,000 (and $3,000 for the Pentium II). But that's the stuff of dreams, and even for those of us without two or three grand to spare, there is good news in all this constant upgrading. Because Intel is so eager to have its latest processors take hold in the market, it is cutting prices on its non-MMX Pentiums significantly...