First and foremost, as we predicted back in March, the overall demand for high-speed modems and disk drives--and thus TI's DSP chipsets--has been much weaker than anyone anticipated.

FORBES: Beyond the sunset

But the Santa Clara, California company has always been its mother's child, with Dai supplying a majority of the company's cultural DNA. Marvell, which makes high-speed chips for disk drives and communications gear, has great designs that outperform older chips made by giants like Intel, Texas Instruments and Broadcom.

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The average road warrior wants a laptop loaded with megabytes of memory, a high-speed processor, a vivid color screen, a modem, a CD-ROM player, and plenty of disk space.

FORBES: Running in place

Its products include integrated circuits that are used in disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems, and personal computers.

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Models configured with an ultra-fast SSD flash drive give you ultra-speed access to files around ten times faster than a standard hard disk drive.

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