'THIS IS NOT THE INTEL WE ALL KNOW'

摘要

For years, intel corp.'s aggressive chip-delivery schedule has been as predictable as, well, Moore's Law. The chipmaker consis-tendy doubled the number of transistors on a processor every two years, just as the man said. Lately, though, Intel's road map—the delivery schedule it uses to let customers know when new products will hit the market—has taken as many twists as an Alpine pass. Over the past eight months, Intel has suffered a string of delays and manufacturing snafus. The latest occurred on July 29, when it said a speedy new 4-gigahertz Pentium chip due by yearend would be delayed until 2005. If s enough to make investors grouchy—and put CEO Craig R. Barrett on edge. "This is not the Intel we all know," he e-mailed employees, "and that is not acceptable."