Intel Wins By Staying “Inside” the Box

By Michael Kanazawa, Guest Author We all hear that you need to think outside of the box to develop breakthrough strategies. In Intel’s case, the winning strategy is more likely to stay “Inside” the box and to stay focused.

Nvidia Riding the Graphics Boom

Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) recent 3:2 stock-split on 9/10 must have helped, but the stock’s rally, this week, has more to do with Nvidia’s robust showing in the Q2/07 results. Net earning of $172.73 million ($0.43 a share) on a revenue of $935.3 million is almost double that of $86.7 million ($0.22 a share) in Q2/06

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AMD Needs a Multi-Core Killer App

After it released its first dual core Opteron for servers on April 21, 2005 followed by the Athlon 64 X2 for desktops a month later, Intel released its first dual core, the Pentium Extreme Edition. Around the same time, AMD splashed full-page ads in newspapers calling upon the bigger rival to join a duel to

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Intel’s Multi-core Future

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is the world’s largest semiconductor company. It shot into limelight riding the famous “Intel Inside” marketing and branding campaign in 1990. Today, with an employee strength of 90,300 Intel currently ranks 62nd in the Fortune 500 list on the back of FY/06 revenues of $35.38 billion. This is however down from its

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