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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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.
area coming computing continue drive local networking product wide wireless
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,
ability brings china deliver facility further opening products worldwide
The opening of this facility brings new manufacturing capabilities to China and further strengthens the country's ability to deliver products to the worldwide market.
cylinders eight firing machine product recovered terms
We have recovered from those missteps and the machine is firing on all eight cylinders in terms of new product introductions,
across higher iii including intel launch mobile positive products results seeing speed
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,
bits hot impact label major management pieces product program pulled slip together
If I were to label the issue, it's one of program management and getting all the bits and pieces pulled together in the right order. We are still very hot on the technology. I don't think a six-month slip is a major impact from a product standpoint.
desktop five parallel products sort time
You will see 32-bit and 64-bit products in parallel for five to 10 years. If you look at the desktop market, by the time you get 64-bit applications on the desktop for the sort of things we do in our home, it will be some time before we get into that space.
chooses intel major
When a major corporation like Intel chooses to relocate, the other corporations will follow.
basic resources spend
We will spend more on development resources for the Basic PC.
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The semiconductor industry faces many technical challenges that need to be addressed if we are to maintain the rate of progress that has been the hallmark of our industry. The Focus Center Program is designed to create a nationwide multiuniversity network of research centers that will help keep the United States and U.S. semiconductor firms at the front of the global microelectronics revolution.
businesses
Essentially all of our businesses will be conducted in this fashion,
assembly dollar initial million people small test
Our announcement is an assembly and test factory, a 300 million dollar initial investment, 1,200 people initial employment: (it's) just one small initial step.
cash committed excess growth investing returning
committed to investing for growth and returning excess cash to our stockholders.