Intel is promising to hit back with a fresh microprocessor design next year.

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Gupta worked in HP's labs, where he helped design the Merced microprocessor--at the time the fastest in the world.

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Gupta worked in HP's labs, where he helped design the Merced microprocessor, at the time the fastest in the world.

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In the early 1990s he saw a PBS program on the microprocessor and Intel and hit upon another notion: Why not design a microchip for drug release?

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