Craig Barrett
Craig Barrett
across growth including industry inventory nearly pc problems product recovered strong third
We had growth across nearly all of our geographies and product lines, including strong microprocessor sales. In the third quarter, the PC industry recovered from its inventory problems and is benefiting from strong seasonal demand.
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committed to investing for growth and returning excess cash to our stockholders.
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The external forecast for year 2000 or for another year is in the 15 to 18 percent growth in units across the world. And that's fairly close to the historical growth rate. So, where as I hear many comments about the post-PC era, I see anything but that when I look at the numbers.
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We have a shared vision and that shared vision will allow us to seek new growth opportunities together.
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I know we've seen relatively strong announcements of GDP growth in the U.S., but as far as I can tell, that hasn't translated into corporate profitability or corporate IT investment growth, ... I wish I had something better to tell you.
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Investing in education and providing 21st century skills for students are fundamental components to the nation's continued growth and prosperity.
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We believe growth of the PC industry will continue and are taking appropriate steps to make sure that Intel will be able to meet the needs of our customers.
goal internet
Our goal is to be the building-block supplier to the Internet economy.
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Micron is one of the industry leaders with a new generation of products and leading-edge manufacturing technology. Our goal in making this equity investment is ensuring an adequate supply of memory components, particularly Direct RDRAM. This is a significant strategic investment that supports our microprocessor road map into 2000 and beyond.
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Will supply and demand dictate a rise in wages for COBOL programmers? I think the real issue will be a movement away from older infrastructures, but if you need Fortran, you will end up paying for it.
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We continue to drive the convergence of computing and communications through our product lineup, and with this we see wireless local area networking and wide area cellular technologies coming together,
century industries subsidize three
Why does the U.S. subsidize three industries of the 19th century and no industries of the 21st century?
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While supply remains tight entering the second quarter, we are ramping our 0.18-micron manufacturing technology rapidly in five facilities and expanding to eight facilities by year-end, which will substantially increase supply in the coming quarters,
aggressive far last year
We have been aggressive last year and so far this year. You should extrapolate our aggressiveness going forward,