That ten-year experiment ended when Intel spun off the company at the beginning of the decade.
When Intel reported a couple of weeks ago, profit was down 27% and revenue off by 3%.
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He wouldn't be drawn about when Intel might ship a 2GHz chip commercially.
That's when Intel's notebook design team in Haifa, Israel started to look like the answer to Intel's competitive woes.
The current estimate reflects a 23.1% decrease from the year-ago quarter, when Intel reported earnings of 65 cents per share.
And you have to know that when Intel and Seagate sneeze, Microsoft is going to catch a cold.
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The statement recalls the sentiment of a year ago, when Intel was coming out of a period of product missteps and execution issues.
The landmark contract came last year when Intel started making chips for Achronix and Tabula, and more recently the publicly traded firm Altera.
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When Intel announced last August that it would acquire McAfee at a 60% premium, I and many others were left scratching our heads.
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Unisys, which makes high-power computer systems for banks and credit card companies, is already anticipating a hassle with export authorities when Intel's Itanium chip debuts later this year.
When Intel wants to show investors the kind of devices that will use future generations of even more power-efficient Atom processors, it flashes a slide with an image of an iPhone.
Then, in 1969, when Intel was developing a 64-bit memory chip for Honeywell, Moore realized the key to getting the chip to function properly was to "dope" the chips with small amounts of impurities.
Both estimate that shipments of traditional computers dropped by a tenth of a point in the second quarter of 2012 -- not a good sign when Intel's Ivy Bridge processors and a wave of Ultrabooks were supposed to usher in a PC renaissance.
We're also going to be bugging Adobe and Intel about when this functionality might hit mainstream Intel integrated chipsets as well, though at least Broadcom's Crystal HD accelerator can be added to some existing netbooks such as a PCI Express mini-card or ExpressCard 34 add-on.
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Why go to all this effort, especially when, unlike Intel, Cisco operates exclusively in a corporate market?
Intergraph and MicroUnity brought suits against Intel when placed in similar circumstances.
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When you pack Intel's blazing new Core 2 Extreme processor and a pair of top-of-the-line nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX graphics cards into a single gaming desktop, you can pretty much expect it to post impressive benchmark numbers.
Look what happened to IBM when it ceded the personal computer operating system to Microsoft and the processors to Intel, or when Microsoft allowed Apple and Google to dominate the mobile operating platform.
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In its complaint, the FTC said Intel harmed competition when it stopped providing samples of upcoming Pentium chips to three companies that rely on the processors to build Intel-based systems -- Compaq, Digital Equipment Corp. (which was acquired by Compaq last year) and Intergraph Corp.
"When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you're doing something right, " Negroponte said, driving wild applause from the crowd of open-source software devotees.
And when she learned that she was a semifinalist for the Intel Science Talent Search, when she found this out her family was living in a homeless shelter.
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When the dust settled, Intel and Micro- soft stood over the old giants.
Notable curmudgeon John Dvorak raised hackles last month when he suggested that an Intel-powered Apple would dump OS X and switch to Windows.
Yep, Macworld could only get a 10 percent bump on the new 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MBP (just like those Core 2 Duo iMacs) when compared to the original 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo MBP running the Speedmark benchmark.
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Meanwhile, analysts treated Intel management with respect when it reported earnings that beat expectations by 7%.
Quite a few Intel customers understand that although small workloads on Intel are fine, when you scale out you face problems.
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Early in this decade Intel found a groove when paired a new breed of power sipping mobile processors with wireless connectivity to lead the shift from boxy, deskbound PCs to thin, light notebook computers.
Intel faced scandal in 1994 when it mishandled news about flaws in its Pentium chip.
When customers learned about a flaw in Intel's Pentium chips, Grove refused to acknowledge the bug.
Intel was also on board when the product was first announced last April, along with Best Buy.
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