Intel invests to push beyond the usual borders of PCs

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Semiconductor giant Intel is investing in a wide range of new technologies that will increase the efficiency and importance of PCs. The company spends an annual $500 million on non-chip related technologies, including investments in Cnet, Internet chat community developer Palace, networking companies Case Technologies and Xircom, Samsung Electronics, and European Satellite Multimedia Services. Intel also has ongoing development ventures with Lockheed Martin and Chips & Technologies to develop 3D animation technologies for the PC. Intel provided substantial subsidies to software developers to produce software specially enhanced for the new Pentium MMX chips. It successfully challenged networking giant 3Com in the network cards market, but some analysts see the company's expansion efforts as possibly distracting it from its core chip businesses, opening the door for challengers AMD and Cyrix.

Planning, Company investment, Company business planning

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FTC may have tough time finding witnesses to testify in probe of Intel

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The FTC, which recently has launched a broad inquiry of Intel's business practices, may have difficulty in gathering critical information from Intel's partners or rivals. Unlike its investigation of Intel between 1991 and 1993, the FTC is demanding that respondents disclose information on any pertinent communications with Intel. Intel competitors are more likely to report complaints, given government allowance of anonymous complaints. Competitors may balk at blasting Intel, which provides them with key technical information. A precedent is the FTC's 1991-1993 investigation against Intel, in which few PC makers agreed to testify on charges that Intel used monopolistic tactics to market the 386 and 286 generations of microprocessors. Intel, which holds an 88% share of the microprocessor market, says it is complying fully with the law.

Laws, regulations and rules, Investigations, United States. Federal Trade Commission, Government Regulation, Investigation

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Intel's Micron investment to give boost to chip industry

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Intel announced a $500 million investment in Micron Technology, which could allow US chip companies to surpass their cash-strapped Japanese and Korean counterparts atop the $13 billion industry. The investment will likely annoint Micron, the lone independent US DRAM manufacturer, as the market-share leader. A currency crisis in South Korea is preventing expansion for the current leader, Samsung Electronics. Intel said its move is primarily insurance against any DRAM shortage that might result from 1999 cutbacks to correct oversupply. Terms of the deal give Intel the right to purchase 6% of Micron in a new class of non-voting common stock. Micron in return will invest in production of a new type of DRAM, which is licensed by engineering company Rambus and touted by Intel.

Random Access Memory Circuits, Finance, Micron Technology Inc., MU, RAM (Random access memory), Dynamic random access memory, DRAM (Dynamic random access memory), DRAM

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