Intel shifts its focus to long-term, original research
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Intel is about to break from its practice of copying and improving on the chip designs of others by embarking on original microprocessor research. Intel COO Craig Barrett says there is nothing left for the company to copy because it is now the industry leader. A team of engineers has been assembled in the new Microcomputer Labs group headed by Richard Wirt to work on long-term projects involving 3D graphics, advanced software applications and other concepts. It is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the huge gains in microprocessor power of past years because of physical limits in the amount of circuitry that can be put on a chip, and because of the high cost of microprocessor development, which can be hundreds of millions of dollars. Intel spends about $200 million a year on its Intel Architecture Labs in Hillsboro, OR, but that operation does little original chip research and has shifted its attention to finding new uses of and new users for computers.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1996
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Intel puts chips on 'hybrid applications'; software tools aim to aid multimedia experiences
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Intel recognizes that it will be many years before technology provides computer networks with the capacity and bandwidth necessary for bringing multimedia Internet services to common users. The company is focusing on the development of interim hybrid applications that will overcome the limits of available bandwidth. The new applications will improve the multimedia capabilities of today's networks, but will not match the capabilities of the increased capacities of the future. A typical application will increase the the amounts of graphics or video that can be downloaded from a Web site and stored on a hard drive. Intel is working to enable TV screens to run video from a Web site and to speed the flow of video from the Web to a PC. The company is investing millions of dollars in research and engineering support to aid third-party companies in the development of hybrids.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1996
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New cast of Davids, armed with chips, to battle Intel; as giant speeds product introduction, competing may be getting tougher
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Intel is gearing up to maintain its market share in the semiconductor chip industry. DEC and Cyrix have both filed law suits against Intel, claiming that the company's Pentium chips use technology patented by the two companies. Intel has denied DEC's charges but has not commented on the allegations Cyrix made. Several start ups, including Advanced Micro Devices, Rise Technology, Metaflow Technologies, SDS-Thomson Microelectronics, Integrated Device Technology and Cyrix are introducing products that they hope will compete successfully with Intel's products. Winning away even 1% of the market from Intel would result in $250 million in annual sales. One of Intel's disadvantages is the resentment PC makers have, from having to buy Intel's products at whatever price the company sets.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997
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