When Jen-Hsun Huang (pronounced Jenson Wong) was 10 years old, his Taiwanese parents sent him to a boarding school in rural Kentucky. It turned out to be a reform school, where Huang was the youngest kid, and he and his brother the only Chinese. "I got beat up now and then," he says. "But I learned how to survive."
As a part of the 25th anniversary of Toshiba's laptop business, the company unveiled a dual-screen laptop concept named the Libretto W100.
Apple would like you, if just for a moment, to forget about the iPad.
At the end of May, Craig Barrett, the chairman and former CEO of Intel and avid horseman, will ride off into the sunset.
Well, here's what we've all been waiting for. Apple put out a couple of announcements on Tuesday related to its desktop computers.
Want a sleeper of a holiday small-business tip? Dell is in a whole heap of trouble - which makes this the perfect time to shamelessly move in and take advantage.
For raw performance, AMD's Athlon 64 X2 chips have lingered behind their Intel Core 2 Duo counterparts all year. Only aggressive pricing from AMD kept its old dual-core CPUs in systems and on store shelves.
The European Union's top antitrust regulator has charged that Intel tried to use its huge market share to push smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices out of the central processing unit (CPU) business.
Apple's unveiling of the iPhone at this year's Macworld trade show quietly signaled the end of Moore's Law as we know it. At the same time, it ushered in a new era of technical innovation, driven b...
Advanced Micro Devices has finally arrived. Long the also-ran of the microprocessor business, a perennial distant second to industry behemoth Intel, AMD is now a contender. In the market for the cr...
The textbooks say that summer does not officially end until the autumnal equinox on Sept. 22 or Sept. 23 (depending on the time zone you're occupying at the time), but for millions of young people it's over the moment the first class bell rings for the fall semester.
AMD is going after Intel in court, but it has already struck where it really hurts. After 20 years of unequivocal Intel supremacy, the market for x86 microprocessors has finally become - and for th...
Regardless of what the market makes of the impending nuptials of PC chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices and graphics chip maker ATI Technologies, one clear winner in the match-up appears to be Nvidia, at least as far as traders are concerned.
Apple is launching a new Intel-based Mac to replace its popular iBook line of laptops for consumers, the company announced Tuesday.
Change is inevitable, and that's generally a good thing. Granted, you won't find many dinosaurs happy about the sudden climate change 65.5 million years ago, but in the grand scheme of things the w...
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Much to Wall Street's dismay, Intel is continuing to invest billions of dollars in Itanium, a chip that most of the industry has written off.
The holidays are past, the sales are on, and perhaps you're tempted to buy yourself the technology toy that Santa somehow forgot to drop down your chimney.
At the same time Apple is shifting to Intel microprocessors, Intel is planning a new generation of chips and technologies designed to make notebook computers smaller and less power hungry, and home computers that will emphasize music, video, games and photos.
it boasts a cinema-quality wide screen and enough power to support graphics-heavy games, it's probably too heavy to carry to the office every day. We can't change that, but we can recommend two top-shelf $1,700 machines that give you one advantage without shortchanging you on the other: a Dell that's as light as a bunch of bananas but performs well, and a powerful HP that fits under your arm. --WILSON ROTHMAN ...
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Intel Corp. posted a higher quarterly profit Tuesday, as the world's largest chipmaker saw strong demand across all of its microprocessor product lines.
Advanced Micro Devices has been chipping away at Intel's lead in a key market and beating it to the punch with several new technological advances, but before AMD can take on the behemoth that is Intel, it'll have to do a lot more, industry analsyts said.
This summer, when a group of independent computing researchers compiled a list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, 25 of those on the list--including a Cray system that ranked 10th--were powered...
When it comes to laptops, there's a notorious trade-off between performance and mobility. If it's lightweight and portable, it's probably also light on hard-drive capacity and processing power. If ...
Apple's announcement last month that it was switching from IBM PowerPC chips to Intel chips was one of those seismic events whose aftershocks continue to be felt for a long time.
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To reach the lab where IBM, Sony, and Toshiba engineers have spent four years and more than $400 million toiling in secret on a computer chip that, if they are right, will usher in a dramatic new e...
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I feel a certain bond to Sun Microsystems, possibly forged when I sat on a roundtable TV talk show in the late 1990s with John Gage, who was then the company's chief scientist.
Shortly before Jerry Sanders stepped down as chairman of Advanced Micro Devices last spring, Hector Ruiz, his handpicked successor as CEO, took the company co-founder aside for what Ruiz hoped woul...
HAS APPLE GOT A deal for you--a brilliant, 17-inch LCD flat-panel display for $1,299, with a powerful desktop computer thrown in free. But the real bonus is that the computer itself does not take u...
Chip manufacturers have a problem, and it's a doozy: As chips get smaller and faster, they also run hotter. The trend can't continue, says IBM Systems and Technology Group VP Bernie Meyerson: "The ...
In his book world Brain, the science fiction novelist H.G. Wells predicted that, thanks to advances in modern technology, students would soon have access to a global network that transmitted a "com...
As it gets set to report first-quarter results Tuesday after the bell, Intel finds itself in an unusual position: industry laggard.
Advanced Micro Devices, the computer industry's spunky, pugnacious comeback kid, has had an amazing few weeks. On January 20 it announced that last year's fourth quarter was its first profitable one in over two years. Subsequent news underscores why.
PALO ALTO, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- Intel Corp. (INTC) will unveil its newest Pentium chip Monday, a processor code named Prescott that was delayed from late last year.
Wall Street is eagerly awaiting Intel's fourth quarter earnings report Wednesday, and it's pretty clear that the numbers will be solid.
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Krishna "Kittu" Kolluri calls it "a gift from God."
Desktop computing is getting a supercharge. With the introduction of Apple's G5 (which runs an IBM PowerPC 970 chip) and AMD's Athlon 64 processor, the era of 64-bit computing has arrived. The new ...
Apple asserts that its new dual-processor Power Mac G5 is the world's fastest personal computer.
When the bottom dropped out of the technology market two years ago, Wim Roelandts of Xilinx was one of the few tech CEOs who kept their cool. Even as chip giants Intel and AMD eliminated more than ...
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton
Ahhh, spring. It's the time of year when the birds warble sweetly, the sun smiles warmly, and the FedEx delivery person gets really, really cranky because of all the new gadgets arriving at the FOR...
It may be the most sophisticated factory ever built. In a cavernous building the size of several football fields, rows of multimillion-dollar machines loom over white-suited workers. Air scrubbed f...
As we bid adieu to 2002--and not a moment too soon!--let's pause to appreciate the products that brightened an otherwise dull year in personal technology. How tedious was 2002? My favorite new prod...
The labyrinthine vastness of Intel's nearly completed D1D semiconductor factory in Hillsboro, Ore., is every bit as breathtaking as the microscopic intricacy of the microprocessors it will soon sta...
In 1965, you wrote the article that contained the observation we now call Moore's Law. When you started Intel with Robert Noyce and Andy three years later, was it your explicit goal for the company...
Hector de Jesus Ruiz, the new chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices, is a short, balding fellow who is so quiet and soft-spoken that his sentences often disappear into an inaudible mumble. In f...
To hear CEO Scott McNealy talk, the most notable news about Sun Microsystems lately is that it is gaining market share against IBM and Compaq in big servers. His evidence: Sun's sequential revenue ...
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With all the GameCube/Xbox hype, you might think civilization has reached the zenith of 3-D gaming. But to a fanatic, the consoles can't touch a fire-breathing, tail-kicking, supermodified PC. So, ...
Just 18 months ago, Advanced Micro Devices crowed with pride as it beat archrival Intel in the race to introduce the world's first PC microprocessor with a clock speed of 1,000 megahertz, or one gi...
It is worth remembering, now that mighty Intel has fallen from grace, that between 1985 and the turn of the century, this company pulled off one of the most amazing extended runs of technological, ...
DIGITAL DIGIT When I fly, I'm paranoid about losing my laptop--I don't want just anyone to see the financial info and documents on my machine. That's why I tried out the Ethenticator MS 3000 from E...
Leave it to Apple to list "power and sex" among the many attributes of the sleek new PowerBook G4 notebook computer. But guess what? Apple's 5.3-pound, one-inch-thick, titanium-clad, wide-screen po...
Okay, I admit it: I used to get excited when the new phone books arrived. But I got over it when they made the type so small that I needed a magnifying glass. And I used to get excited when Intel c...
There are executives who set lofty goals for themselves: turn their company into an industry beater, develop a world-changing technology, maybe even have a business dictum named after them. Then th...
According to eBrain, the market research wing of the Consumer Electronics Association, nearly 70% of American adults will venture into an electronics store this holiday season in search of a techno...
When it comes to computers and peripherals, you continue to get more for your money. More speed, more power, more style, more choice. To help you sort through the at times overwhelming options, we'...
PIXEL PERFECT If you take digital photos, how do you display your e-pictures on the mantel? You can boot up your PC every time someone asks to see your wedding pictures, but a better option is the ...
Think of Sun Microsystems as the Big-Picture computer company. From its founding 18 years ago, Sun's executives have been thinking Big Thoughts. Even now they're thinking big, about where computing...
The Internet changes everything. We've heard that phrase so often in the past couple of years that it has ceased to have any shock value. Of course the Internet changes everything. Why else are Web...
Intel investors might be a little perplexed about the course of their beloved stock these days. This spring the $26 billion chipmaker announced that the rollout of its newest high-speed Pentium III...
Driving a new Pentium III computer is like slipping behind the wheel of a souped-up Porsche. It's great to see the world whiz by, but it's questionable whether you need all this horsepower just to ...
Emerging from one of the worst recessions in the history of semiconductors, Intel is going on the warpath. Its mission: to redefine itself for a changing marketplace. For the past two decades Intel...
Something is amiss in the land of computers. On March 4, Intel warned that first-quarter results would come in below expectations; Compaq followed two days later with its own confession. Both stock...
For most of the 1990s, a bet on one of the Nasdaq's four horsemen was as close to a sure thing as you could find on Wall Street. Buy any of these tech giants--Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, or Oracle--an...
The world of digital technology is famous for its rapid pace of innovation, and the language that describes it changes just as quickly. Because the computer industry is constantly spinning out new ...
In the heyday of the muscle cars, Detroit's horsepower race was always hampered by reality: You couldn't go 200 mph on America's highways. The extra horsepower was wasted. There are no speed limits...
Sometimes it seems as though PCs should come stamped with expiration dates, like cartons of milk--fresh technology seems so perishable. Most users cannot replace their machines as fast as the indus...
What if Microsoft and Intel got really angry at each other? Everybody is focused on Sun Microsystems and the U.S. Department of Justice attacking Microsoft in the courts. What if the real problem w...
The collaboration between Intel and Hewlett-Packard to develop the Merced, a turbocharged big brother to the ubiquitous Pentium microprocessor, has been anything but stealthy. Everybody in Silicon ...
Weary of waiting endlessly for your old computer to download stock or fund prices from the Internet? Are your kids or grandkids bugging you to buy a machine that runs the latest version of Quake? O...
Could anyone be surprised that Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy named his son Maverick? The company he leads is a maverick too. To the supremacy of Intel and Microsoft, the rest of the computer w...
May 13 wasn't a Friday, but it was Intel's unlucky day. Digital Equipment Corp. and Cyrix Corp. separately sued Intel for patent infringement, asserting they have patents that Intel's Pentium, Pent...
In the movie Volcano, an eruption threatens to destroy Los Angeles. Inexorably, with shocking speed, the lava engulfs the city, forever changing the landscape. The coast, as the slogan has it, is t...
Remember that column I wrote last fall, complaining that there wasn't anything left to write about in Silicon Valley, since everybody but Microsoft and Intel was imploding? ("Please Save Me From My...
After the close of trading on January 14, the world's leading manufacturer of computer chips stunned no one by announcing record 1996 earnings of $5.2 billion on sales of $20.8 billion. Shareholder...
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Andy Grove didn't give it a second thought that summer afternoon in 1978, after a scrawny, callow computer programmer and his burly, bearded partner dropped by his office cubicle to shake hands. Ju...
China is trouble. Its political system is unstable and plagued by corruption, its booming economy is perilously brittle. The people in charge show little respect for human rights or copyrights. It ...
IT'S A HIGH-TECH VICIOUS CIRCLE. NEW computers get more powerful by the day. Better hardware leads to fancier software, which leads more and more people to bank and E-mail and do their homework by ...
After six years of tinkering with her computer, Jenny still isn't happy. She vents her frustration quietly, shuffling through a pile of bills for a string of electronic face-lifts: a color video ca...
Even though it's a glorious Saturday morning and he's coasting downhill astride his jet-black bicycle, Intel Corp. CEO Andy Grove is hard at work. As usual, he's lagging far behind his more athleti...
NEXGEN, Milpitas, California Microprocessors for PCs FOUNDED: 1986 REVENUES: $12 million (est.) EMPLOYEES: 136 (NASDAQ: NXGN)
YOU'RE WATCHING Saturday Night Live. At a break you see commercials for beer, two kinds of sporty cars, and ... a computer part? It's not a spoof, it's Intel's ambitious and expensive attempt to ge...
The new line of consumer PCs that Compaq Computer announced in mid-September were loaded with hot features like cable-ready TV and speakerphones, but notably lacked one key item: Intel's Pentium ch...
WITH less than four months to go, this is already shaping up as a landmark year for that rapidly evolving electronic marvel, the personal computer: In 1994, for the first time, as many PCs will be ...
MADE IN TAIWAN. If that label sparks an image of cheap, shoddy products, think again. In budget personal computers, arguably the hottest segment of the global PC market, Taiwanese suppliers provide...
WOULD YOU BASE your business strategy on the assumption that AT&T, IBM, Matsushita, Motorola, Philips, Sega, and Sony won't be able to keep up with you? How about gambling nearly a third of your co...
Going over the specifications for a Pentium or PowerPC computer chip is like measuring the engine of a Ferrari. You can tell it's fast by looking, but it's much more fun to drive it. Buyers of comp...
DESPITE his widely noted disavowal last summer of the need for a vision for IBM, Lou Gerstner has one. It's clear and specific. The company he sees will know how to seize more opportunities than it...
TWENTY YEARS after its invention, the microprocessor -- the computer-on-a- chip, a sliver of silicon not much bigger than your thumbnail, like the one on FORTUNE's cover -- has suddenly brought for...
Computer dealers this month will start selling PCs with Intel's Pentium chip, which allows the machines to run two to five times faster than today's speediest models. The timesaving chip is especia...
Intel, a standout stock market performer of late, looked like an also-ran just seven years ago. Since then the company has transformed itself from a money- losing producer of commodity memory chips...
AS ANDY GROVE likes to say, the price of leadership is eternal paranoia. The chief executive of Intel faces yet another major challenge. Some ten years ago, when IBM was looking for a microprocesso...
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