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- <title>
- Apr. 05, 1993: A Chip with Zip
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 05, 1993 The Generation That Forgot God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- BUSINESS
- A Chip with Zip
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- <body>
- <p>Intel's new Pentium breaks new ground in desktop computing
- </p>
- <p> It's hard to tell which is faster these days, the speed of
- data as they pass through increasingly efficient chips or the
- speed of change in the per sonal-computer industry. Thanks
- largely to recent innovations in microprocessor technology, many
- of today's desktop machines are just as powerful as closet-size
- mainframes. The latest entry is the Pentium, a new chip developed
- by Intel that is almost as fast as some supercomputers. The chip,
- the size of a thumbnail, contains 3.1 million transistors. Not
- only does the Pentium--which will be the "brain" of personal
- computers--have plenty of giddyap, it will be priced at
- levels that are relatively low for new-generation processors.
- PCs incorporating the Pentium could cost as little as $4,500.
- </p>
- <p> The Pentium is the latest success story for U.S.
- chipmakers, which in the past two years have regained most of
- the ground lost to their Japanese rivals during the 1980s.
- American companies have also scored significant success in
- Japan. But talks between Tokyo and Washington on continued
- access to Japanese markets have hit a snag.
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- </body>
- </article>
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