Barrett , Intel's former CEO and current chairman, threatened Acer Chairman Stan Shih with "severe consequences" for using AMD's Athlon 64 server chip.

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Favorites include Chang Yung-fa, Nita Ing and Stan Shih, who respectively head the Evergreen shipping group, the Taiwan High-Speed Rail Corporation and Acer Corp.

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Acer Computer (No. 170) was a trendsetter years ago in Taiwan when founder Stan Shih and his management team decided the company had become inefficient and needed to go on a diet.

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