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ENDANGERED EARTH 1988 Realizing that a planet is a terrible thing to waste...
These traits have allowed Grove to push with paranoiac obsession the bounds of innovation and to build Intel, which makes nearly 90% of the planet's PC microprocessors, into a company worth $115 billion (more than IBM), with $5.1 billion in annual profits (seventh most profitable in the world) and an annual return to investors of 44% during the past 10 years. Other great entrepreneurs, most notably the visionary wizard Bill Gates, have become richer and better known by creating the software that makes use of the microchip. But more than any other person, Andy Grove has made real...
...result is one of the great statistical zingers of our age: every month, 4 quadrillion transistors are produced, more than half a million for every human on the planet. Intel's space-suited workers etch more than 7 million, in lines one four-hundredth the thickness of a human hair, on each of its thumbnail-size Pentium II chips, which sell for about $500 and can make 588 million calculations a second...
...great chemists of the century) and Robert Noyce (a co-inventor of the integrated circuit), it has blossomed under Grove's leadership into the world's pre-eminent microprocessor manufacturer. From a standing start in 1981, when IBM introduced the first personal computers, they have populated the planet at an astounding rate. And of the 83 million machines sold this year, nearly 90% get their kick from an Intel chip. So do antilock brakes, Internet servers, cell phones and digital cameras. And who knows what products not yet invented will be powered by the chip 10, 20 years from...
...FAVORITE MARTIAN All eyes were on Mars this summer as NASA's Pathfinder lander and its Sojourner rover beamed home spectacular pictures of the Red Planet and introduced Earthlings to rocks with names like Casper and Scooby Doo. Sniffing out the chemistry of both the rocks and the soil, the rover helped confirm scientists' suspicion that Mars was once a warm, wet place, possibly able to support life. After four months of work, the lander and rover succumbed to Mars' punishing cold. Now and then, however, when the sun is high in the Martian sky, the rover may stir, toddling...