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Grove polishes Intel strategy twice a year with a half-day "state of the industry" report to Intel's directors and top executives. After the presentation, the CEO submits to an intellectual firing squad led by the likes of Rock and Moore. Grove's performances, say those who have seen them, are a mixture of showmanship and brainpower, as if Albert Einstein were guest host of the Tonight Show. "Andy thinks faster than most people, certainly than me," says Rock, who has made billions betting on firms such as Intel and Apple. "I would hate to compete with Intel...
...Grove isn't going anywhere. He is as engaged as anyone else at the company. After 8 on most nights, after even the diehards have cleared out of the office, Grove's cubicle still glows against the window. Rock, who has known Grove for 30 years, puts the persistent passion down to a calm inner knowledge. "Andy has been exactly the same person. He hasn't changed. That's the beauty of it. He has no airs." That Grove could remain still in the midst of such a turbulent business is perhaps the best explanation of his success. Other companies...
...Noyce was fed up with Fairchild. The firm was blowing up: engineers were leaving, top execs didn't understand the semi business, and science was being replaced by politics. Noyce phoned Arthur Rock, now the eminence grise of Silicon Valley investing, and told him that he and Moore wanted to start their own semiconductor company. Fairchild, he said, was finished. Rock (who holds nearly $500 million of Intel stock today) raised the money nearly instantly. Moore told Grove of the plan one day when they were at a conference in Boulder, Colo. The decision to join his bosses was made...
...with TIME editors at dinner at his rambling ranch house. Sitting around the table was Intel's past, present and future: Grove's wife Eva, who fell in love with him when he was working as a busboy; Gordon Moore, Intel's first CEO and Grove's mentor; Arthur Rock, the venture capitalist who underwrote the company in 1968; and Craig Barrett, Intel's president, who will probably succeed Grove...
...hope America lets the McCaugheys rear their children in peace, with the help of their friends and family. The couple's rock-solid faith probably did as much as anything else to help those seven babies make it. The parents are going to be overwhelmed at times, and the last thing they need is a media circus. PAUL A. FREITAG Cheverly...