Intel and the Israelis

According to journalist Michael Malone, "With the IBM contract, Intel won the microprocessor wars." In a chip, this was accomplished differently, by splitting the instructions fed into the chip.\n Intel's eco-technology executive, John Skinner, calculated the amount of power that Intel's chips would have used if the company had kept developing them in the same way rather than making the "right turn" toward the Israeli team's low-power design: a saving of 20 terawatt hours of electricity over a two-and-a-half-year period. Dadi Perlmutter recalled the shock of an American colleague when he witnessed Israeli corporate culture for the first time: When we all emerged [from our meeting], red faced after shouting, he asked me what was wrong.