It is a fair bet that more than half of the PCs bought this Christmas in America for less than $1 000 will have AMD rather than Intel inside. Not content with this seasonal miracle, Advanced Micro Devices is bidding to loosen Intel’s grip on the more profitable high end of the market too. It could well succeed.
For most of its existence, AMD has lived in the shadow of the deal that it did with Intel in 1982. To power its PCs, IBM had decided to buy Intel’s new x-86 chips, but wanted a second supplier to keep Intel under control. Under the terms of the agreement, Intel got the contract, but had to share its intellectual property with the smaller AMD. Intel broke the arrangement, AMD started a lawsuit, and thus began nearly a decade of bitter legal battles between the two companies.
The conflict misrepresented AMD’s business, absorbed management energy and weakened investor confidence. By selling cheap Intel clones(克隆产品), AMD staggered (蹒跚，摇晃) on,
A. AMD may have a great success.
B. AMD deserves such a success.
C. AMD may be fortunate enough to succeed.
D. AMD is likely to succee
It is a fair bet that more than half of the PCs bought this Christmas in America for less than $1 000 will have AMD rather than Intel inside. Not content with this seasonal miracle, Advanced Micro Devices is bidding to loosen Intel’s grip on the more profitable high end of the market too. It could well succeed.
For most of its existence, AMD has lived in the shadow of the deal that it did with Intel in 1982. To power its PCs, IBM had decided to buy Intel’s new x-86 chips, but wanted a second supplier to keep Intel under control. Under the terms of the agreement, Intel got the contract, but had to share its intellectual property with the smaller AMD. Intel broke the arrangement, AMD started a lawsuit, and thus began nearly a decade of bitter legal battles between the two companies.
The conflict misrepresented AMD’s business, absorbed management energy and weakened investor confidence. By selling cheap Intel clones(克隆产品), AMD staggered (蹒跚，摇晃) on,
A. Trying to get a lift
B. Intel’s dominance
C. An ill-tempered gorilla
D. The support of computer makers
| It is a fair bet that more than half of
the PCs bought this Christmas in America for less than $1 000 will have AMD
rather than Intel inside. Not content with this seasonal miracle, Advanced Micro
Devices is bidding to loosen Intel’s grip on the more profitable high end of the
market too. It could well succeed. For most of its existence, AMD has lived in the shadow of the deal that it did with Intel in 1982. To power its PCs, IBM had decided to buy Intel’s new x-86 chips, but wanted a second supplier to keep Intel under control. Under the terms of the agreement, Intel got the contract, but had to share its intellectual property with the smaller AMD. Intel broke the arrangement, AMD started a lawsuit, and thus began nearly a decade of bitter legal battles between the two companies. The conflict misrepresented AMD’s business, A. AMD may have a great success. B. AMD deserves such a success. C. AMD may be fortunate enough to succeed. D. AMD is likely to succeed. [填空题]More than half of all companies surveyed by the National Commission on Writing took an employee’s writing skills into consideration when making promotion decisions.
[单项选择]Every year more than half a million American kids have drainage(排泄) tubes surgically implanted in their ears to combat persistent infections. The procedure, known as tympanostomy, may not be as (62) as the tonsillectomy was in the 1940s, but it now (63) as the nation’s leading childhood (64) and a new study suggests it’s being vastly overused. In (65) more than 6,000 scheduled ear tube operations, a team of experts (66) by Harvard pediatrician Lawrence Kleinman found that fewer than half were clearly justified. "Each year", the researchers write in the current Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), "several hundred thousand children in the United States may be (67) tympanostomy tubes that offer them no demonstrated (68) ...and may place them at increased (69) ."
Tube placement isn’t a (70) risky procedure, but it costs $1,000 to $1,500 and sometimes scars the eardrum, causing a partial loss of (71) 我来回答: 提交
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