Word: computerized
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Computer scientists had been plagued for years by overheated transistors that regularly threatened to explode, and Moore had the solution. In 1968 he created a company to manufacture silicon devices which could conduct electricity without explosive side effects. He called the company Integrated Electronics.
But the personal computer age had not caught on yet, so many companies did not yet realize the possibilities of the new silicon microchips.
Grove traveled constantly, building factories and searching for investors, including his 1972 trip to Malaysia. He was driven by what seemed like a built-in success mechanism, one that led him to drive himself and Intel to the brink of total domination of the computer market--and the emerging global...
When other computer companies struggled through a slowdown in the U.S. economy and fierce competition from the Japanese in the early 1980s, Grove bucked an industry trend and refused to fire his workers. Instead, he asked them to work harder: more hours, more efficiently and no extra pay. Not exactly...
Such an opportunity looked Grove squarely in the eye in the mid-1980s. Intel was attached to its computer memory chips, known as DRAMs. But the company watched warily as the market was invaded by sleeker and cheaper DRAMs manufactured by Japanese competitors who persisted in undercutting Intel's prices...