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  • Intel pre-empts Comdex/Fall with exec blitz

    U-turns and right wheels galore on Friday 13th Part .18

    Intel wheeled out its top guns on Friday the 13th last in a boost aimed at avoiding the need to go to Comdex/Fall to find out what it is thinking. Intel is not going to have booths at Comdex this year, just sideshows. It rolled out Sean Maloney, Paul Otellini, Pat "Kicking" Gelsinger, Sunlin Chou and Andy Bryant, while …

    Business 15 Nov 1998, 10:02

  • Intel's Friday 13th Part II: 3Com beaten by Intel

    Claims more 10/100 connections in Q3

    Intel has promised it will help its vendor and channel partners to manage stock, after the difficulties both it and them had experienced earlier this year. Sean Maloney, VP of the sales and marketing group at Intel, told an analyst's meeting on Friday that it will offer Web-based tools to help OEMs and its channel partners " …

    Business 15 Nov 1998, 11:28

  • Intel's Friday 13th Part III: Yaquina & Twister on view

    Kicking Pat Gelsinger reveals designs, promotes Linux

    Intel has revealed further details of its ease of use designs for PC, codenamed Yaquina and Twister. Yaquina, which will appear in three versions on different stands at Comdex/Fall during this week, will come in three designs. The machines will use a 500MHz processor, have an 8Gb hard drive, 128Mb of memory, and USB. The boxes …

    Business 15 Nov 1998, 11:29

  • Intel's Friday 13th Part IV: Merced die makes appearance

    Re-incarnated Celeron is the fighting brand..roadmaps'r'us

    Intel has disclosed more details about its segmented roadmap and for the first time has shown a diagram of the Merced die. And Paul Otellini, executive VP, Intel architecture business group, described the Celeron platform "fresh from the factory" and the "fighting brand". Speaking at an Intel analyst forum on Friday, he said …

    Business 15 Nov 1998, 12:55

  • Intel's Friday 13th Part V: The gory end

    Chou says chip cycle brought down from three to two years

    Chip giant Intel has claimed that it has brought its traditional three year cycle down to two years and at the same time said its packaging plans were ahead of its competition. Sunlin Chou, VP of the technology and marketing group at Intel US, told analysts on Friday that while its chip cycle stood at three years in 1994, it was …

    Business 15 Nov 1998, 13:17

  • Intel anagrams bring up weird stuff

    Range of options looks real strange now

    A quick runthrough of the Anagram Server has produced some odd results. Pat "Kicking" Gelsinger, readers will remember, kicked a poor staffer with a gammy leg at Comdex/Fall last year -- twice. So Pat Gelsinger becomes "A leg per sting". Andy Grove anagrams as either "Gravy Done" or "Gay Vendor", while Paul Otellini seems to …

    Business 15 Nov 1998, 16:11

  • LG caught in middle of UK inward investment row

    Welsh outbid Geordies by £150 million of taxpayers' dosh

    An almighty row has broken out over the use of UK taxpayers' money after it emerged that the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) offered £150 million more than another region to attract LG to the region. According to BBC Radio 4 programme, File on Four, the Northern Development Company (NDC), which operates in the north east of …

    Business 15 Nov 1998, 17:55