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- May 03, 1993: Tasting a Bit of a Microchip Dip
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 23
- BUSINESS
- Tasting a Bit of a Microchip Dip
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- <body>
- <p>Computer king Intel's stock reels as a competitor copies its
- leading product
- </p>
- <p> Talk personal computers and you are talking microprocessors--the tiny silicon chips that are the PC's "brains." Talk
- microprocessors and you are talking Intel. The company, based
- in Santa Clara, California, is the world's leading PC-brain
- maker. Part of Intel's success has been its ability to stay a
- step ahead of the chip manufacturers making cheaper versions of
- Intel's high-performance product line. One of these is Advanced
- Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), based in nearby Sunnyvale, which has
- just scored a coup in the constantly changing world of chip
- competition: a judge overturned a jury verdict that AMD did not
- have the right to sell a clone of Intel's popular 486 chip.
- Naturally, AMD said it would immediately begin selling its own
- 486 chips.
- </p>
- <p> Wall Street reacted quickly; Intel stock dropped 11% in
- one day. But the market was clearly overreacting. Intel is
- still the world's largest 486 maker and will continue to be so--by far. Given its comparatively modest manufacturing
- capacity, "AMD is going to be limited to 5% of the market
- share," predicts Montgomery Securities analyst Thomas Thornhill.
- Perhaps more important, Intel has already launched the next
- generation chip, the Pentium, destined to leave the 486 in the
- dust.
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- </body>
- </article>
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