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The article reports that the move of Dell Inc. to stay only with the integrated circuits from Intel Corp. has set Dell apart from its competitors. Dell executives stated that there are no plans to introduce servers or microcomputers running on the processors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Dell president and chief executive officer Kevin Rollins claimed that the move would not make a business sense, implying that selling both product lines would be confusing to Dell's sales team and customers.

Report the offer of Intel Corp. to personal computer manufacturers to abandon AMD products in the United States. Elimination of AMD processors in Gateway Inc. product lines; Reliance of Gateway Inc. to Intel Corp.; Competition between AMD and Intel Corp.

The article reports on the new product offering of Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), which consists of three desktop models for its HP Compaq Business PC product line. The two models offers the Core 2 Duo chip of Intel Corp., while the other one is supported by the new Athlon 64 X2 processors of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. HP has increased its focus on security and manageability and two major concerns for senior-level information technology managers. The HP Openview Configuration Management Agent is preinstalled to track and update software.

This article presents various developments related to the computer industry. Gateway Inc. has purchased personal computer maker eMachines Inc. Intel President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini said the chip maker probably will offer 64-bit extensions in its 32-bit processors, such as Xeon and Pentium, once operating systems and applications are tuned to such extensions. Visto Corp. has acquired the software division of Psion PLC. Visto, which makes wireless messaging software said the Psion acquisition fills its smart-phone gap and gives the company a European presence.

The article presents developments related to the computer industry. Chip maker Intel Corp. analysts last week told Wall Street to expect continued growth for the company throughout next year, meeting projections of approximately 19 or 20 percent growth in semiconductor sales. From a product standpoint, executives said Intel will deliver a 4GHz desktop processor next year. They also disclosed the "Grantsdale" desktop chip set, also due next year, which will be able to turn the PC into a wireless access point through the use of software. Desktop processors will include multiple cores beginning in 2005, Intel officials said. TechNet, a politically focused organization of technology executives, next week will release a security evaluation survey that CEOs can use in conjunction with their IT management to gain an understanding of how well they are prepared to deal with security problems.

The article focuses on the competition that will led by 64-bit CPUs. With the arrival of Apple Computer Inc.'s desktop machines and their 64-bit CPUs, the race to the next generation of mass-market processing power suddenly has a severe competition. Intel Corp.'s Itanium, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron and Athlon 64, and now the IBM PowerPC 970 (or G5) processor in forth-coming Apple systems offer distinctly different options to users of memory-intensive applications. All three 64-bit architectures must compete against the frugal enterprise buyer's base case of continuing to buy commodity-priced workstations and servers using variants of Intel's 32-bit Pentium 4. Intel celebrated the graduation season by shipping a 3.2GHz P4 that should enjoy a short but hot summer as leader of the pack. INSETS: 64-bit desktop: Why and why not;Apple's 64-bit systems.

Predicts troubled times for Intel in Taiwan as of June 14, 1999. Percent of the world's personal computers made by Taiwanese manufacturers; Meeting of officials of the China External Trade Development Council; Desire for Taiwan to be an innovator; Need for Taiwan to shift its manufacturing plants to China and the Philippines; Intel's problems differentiating its chips and chip sets; Positioning of the Celeron at the consumer level.

Discusses the efforts of Intel Corp. in late 1998 to help personal computer makers design systems based on next-generation ease-of-use features and without using legacy components. The challenges that Intel faces; How backward compatibility affects the introduction of new architectures; Support costs for new devices; How Intel plans to keep the industry on schedule with new features; Contact information.

Comments on Intel Corp.'s role in speeding up the product cycles of the personal computer (PC) industry in the United States. Significance of Intel's move into the core logic and motherboard market; Minimized impact of other companies on the X86 platform; Microprocessors as the core business of Intel.

Focuses on the efforts of Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. to revitalize the consumer personal computer (PC) market by creating a PC that is packed with powerful new multimedia features and is greatly improved in terms of usability. Microsoft's launching of the Simply Interactive PC at the 1996 WinHEC exposition in California; Intel's MMX multimedia acceleration technology as basis for the new product. INSET: Inside take: Why I've been hearing.., by Patrick Houston..