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That may sound like a simple enough statement, but it represents a profound revolution in the way the Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker--long the powerhouse of Silicon Valley--does business. Forty years ago this April, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that given advances in transistor miniaturization, computer processors should double in speed every 18 months. Not only did Moore's law become the most trustworthy truism in technology, it was also the rock on which all Intel marketing was founded. Why did you need a PC with an Intel Pentium II processor? Because it was four times as fast...
...Otellini, who will become CEO in May, that reality has the makings of a crisis. And in fact the Pentium 4 issue was only one of a whole host of mishaps and missteps that Intel found itself confronted with in 2004. The LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) chip for high-definition TVs, a pet project of Otellini's that (as president and COO) he had announced with much fanfare in January 2004, was abandoned in November when the cost of production became prohibitive. Waggish engineers made a disco ball out of defunct LCOS chips for Intel's holiday party...
...unlike PC manufacturers and retailers, who have to deal with wafer-thin margins, Intel--thanks to its dominant position--enjoys a 55% profit margin on every $300 PC chip. "Most companies would kill to get margins like that," says Nathan Brockwood, senior analyst for Insight 64, a Silicon Valley research firm...
During a recent breakfast meeting between Howard Chao, the partner in charge of O'Melveny & Myers' Asia practice, and a Silicon Valley venture-capital tycoon shopping for a lawyer with expertise there, the conversation was less a sales pitch by Chao than a freewheeling exchange about corporate-finance trends and upcoming investment opportunities. The portfolio manager left the meeting enlightened about the Chinese business landscape, and Chao got a new client as well as a referral to a company in the VC's portfolio that might also need his counsel. Most people would call that rainmaking. Chao calls it "knowledge...
During a recent meeting between Howard Chao, the partner in charge of O'Melveny & Myers' Asia practice, and a Silicon Valley venture-capital tycoon shopping for a lawyer with expertise there, the conversation was less a sales pitch by Chao than a freewheeling exchange about corporate-finance trends and upcoming investment opportunities. The portfolio manager left the meeting enlightened about the Chinese business landscape, and Chao got a new client as well as a referral to a company in the VC's portfolio that might also need his counsel. Most people would call that rainmaking. Chao calls it "knowledge arbitrage...