Lusheng, IMO, you have to look at Intel as a company that has broadened its product line considerably. They don't just make microprocessor chips.
Other products, all of which will, or do sell like hotcakes:
Flash Memory. These find their way into cameras, hand held radios, pagers...
Motherboards, fully stuffed with their own micros and cache; other chip vendors DRAM, multi-media chips, etc.
Complete PCs, for shipping to their OEMs like DEC, HP, etc.
Servers with 1, 2, 4, 8 or more Pentium Pros inside, 1 GB of main memory, 80 GB of RAID DASD, sits right beside your desk. These, I think, are going to absolutely explode Intel's revenues and profits starting mid- 96 and beyond. You talk about the Internet, these will be driving it, and they will become the main processing power for small, medium and large companies. We have somewhere between 4 and 8 of these puppies in development in the building next to mine (bringing up Windows NT, the OS wave of the future for businesses and the Internet).
P7 running 64 bit UNIX, then, later, NT (if Microsoft decides to write it. Intel will be too busy.
P55C micro with on-chip enhanced via software audio and video to make your kid's games more fun.
Enough, already? V |