Bye-bye, Pentium. Hello, Viagra. Was it only a year ago that Intel Corp., maker of the Pentium chip, was the world's second-most-valuable company, with a market capitalization of $417 billion? Today, Intel is worth only $181 billion and ranks No. 13 globally. But while Intel was on the way down, Pfizer Inc. was zooming up. Pfizer, the manufacturer of Viagra, boosted its market cap from $172 billion to $271 billion after acquiring rival Warner-Lambert Co. last summer, rising from global No.20 to No.4.
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