<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a79046ec-42f0-4cb7-a9e3-9ec3882f3b1a/71B9BFAF-0EEA-43C5-A187-8DC1044AD2DB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14299624&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl" href="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14299624&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl" style="font-size: 11px;">www.economist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14299624&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl"><P>At the time the microchip business was producing such unreliable products that customers insisted that companies like Intel always license new products to a secondary supplier to ensure reliability of supply. His efforts to tighten up quality control led to a commercial coup. When his firm introduced its widely anticipated 386 processor, he stunned the industry by declaring that Intel would not license any secondary manufacturers. This was a huge risk for computer-makers, but such was their appetite for the new chip that they bought it anyway. Intel’s ability to deliver good enough chips in large numbers meant profits no longer had to be shared with secondary manufacturers.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14299624&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl">The second big decision was Dr Grove’s radical announcement that Intel would market its microchips directly to consumers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14299624&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl">The firm’s roots and most of its profits lay in making memory chips; Intel’s microprocessor group was just a small niche</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14299624&subjectID=348909&fsrc=nwl">But Dr Grove decided to bet the future of the company on microprocessors,</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/71B9BFAF-0EEA-43C5-A187-8DC1044AD2DB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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