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...academic community took notice two weeks ago when Stanford chose a Silicon Valley entrepreneur as its 10th president. John L. Hennessy is currently Stanford's provost. Soon to be the school's first president with an engineering background, he is the co-founder of a successful microprocessor company, MIPS Computer Systems--and he's wealthy enough to never work again...
Venture capital is certainly not a novel concept for HMC. According to Meyer, Harvard first put money into venture capital in 1978, the year Intel introduced the 8086 microprocessor. HMC has set the 15 percent goal for private equity in1992...
Cisco's rise signifies a new phase of the technological revolution. Microsoft ruled the first phase, marked by decreasing microprocessor costs and cheaper data storage, which made the PC a household appliance. That confluence of technologies resulted in cell phones, game platforms, pagers and a host of other smart devices that are now in place...
LEAP TO IT When you tell your kid to jump, does she ask, "How high?" No matter; if she's wearing Reebok's new Traxtar shoe, the shoe will answer for her. Designed for kids ages 6 to 11, Traxtar's built-in microprocessor notes how fast its wearer runs, jumps or leaps. As kids move to new performance levels, the shoe's display "pod" flashes and plays Pomp and Circumstance. TRAXTAR.COM, a companion website, offers codes to punch into the pod to make it play other songs. A pair costs $55 for tots and $65 for teens...
...playing DVD movies or running any of the rich programs in the vast, dark Quittner Collection, although the Athlon is supposed to handle multimedia much better, thanks to its 200-MHz bus, vs. the Pentium's 100-MHz bus. (Think of the bus as the highway between the microprocessor and the rest of the computer.) A spokesman for Intel pooh-poohed the importance of bus speed, saying the real bottleneck is elsewhere in the computer. As for all the other benchmarks that show AMD's chip being faster, Intel had no comment, though it has cut Pentium prices as much...