Craig Barrett
Craig Barrett
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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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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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Our goal is to be the building-block supplier to the Internet economy.
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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,
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Why does the U.S. subsidize three industries of the 19th century and no industries of the 21st century?
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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.
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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,
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We have been aggressive last year and so far this year. You should extrapolate our aggressiveness going forward,
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We need to work together (with the U.S. government) to make trade agreements with China right for both of us,
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Today's announced merger extends our strength in networking and communications. It provides us with the silicon building blocks necessary to supply the rapidly growing demands created by the Internet and e-commerce.
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We are seeing positive results from the launch of new products across all segments, including the introductions of the Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon processors and higher speed Intel Celeron and mobile Pentium II processors,
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We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,
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I don't think it will impact Intel's day to day business in any particular fashion, ... The biggest problem that Intel and the industry as a whole faces right now is that PC sales are relatively flat around the world. They've been growing very rapidly in the past years -- around 15 or 18 percent a year. But this year it's growing very slowly. I think that's the biggest problem Intel faces.