, These massive investments enabled Intel to meet the fast-expanding demand for microprocessors, and thereby helped sustain its monopoly on these chips. They also supported the corporation's extraordinary growth for much of the 1990s. Sales sextupled from $5, vol.8, 1998.

, its low productivity became a production powerhouse dominating the world's semiconductor industry, retrospect, the Japanese challenge in manufacturing may have been a blessing in disguise for Intel, p.56

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