Word: slowdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merits of that no-b.s. culture became clear as the world around Intel began to crack. Starting in 1976, the firm sailed into one iceberg after another: weak demand for memory chips, factory problems, ruthless Japanese "dumping." In 1981, when Intel steamed into yet another exhausting chip slowdown, Grove decided that instead of laying off employees he'd order Intel's staff to work 25% harder--two hours a day, every day, for free. The "125% solution" turned Santa Clara into a sweatshop (a few particularly dyspeptic engineers took to wearing sweatbands to highlight the point), but Grove...
...they will sell, how soon and at what price. One obvious problem is Asia. Tech companies were doing a lot of business there before the region's economies imploded. Intel, for example, has been getting 28% of its annual revenue there and will surely feel a sting from the slowdown...
...first category is, no surprise here: e-mail. As evidenced by the temporary slowdown in e-mail performance last week, we Harvard folk just love our electronic mail. In order to ensure continued benefits from this medium, a few common sense tactics should be adopted...
Still, according to Rebecca S. Rosen '99, the slowdown was only a slight annoyance. She said compared to the frequent and serious computer troubles that occurred last year, this problem was less significant...
...help reduce the e-mail load and prevent this slowdown from happening in the future, computer services advises users to attaching large files--such as videos--to their meassages and not to mass mail during...