Chapters 35 & 36 Nate McKim The intel trinity
Ch 35 – Riding a Rocket 1980 ($855M) 1990 ($4B) Keeping Pace with Moore’s Law as a mature company Memory Chips to Microprocessors Demand Bubble (multiple orders) DRAM Black Market Motorola Competition Grove goes all in! The 125% Solution Boom and Bust!
Ch 36 – For the Cause 80186/80188—16 Bit Technology (1982) 80286—The First 80X86…”286” Pay Cuts/Freezes Intel Goes Corporate
Reflection Questions Grove’s tough decisions: How do you think Grove handled the downturn/tech bubble burst in the early 80’s? What other options were available? Outsourcing: What were the differences in outsourcing during the tech era versus now?