(2) Ian King, Intel's Foil Finally Has a Free Shot.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... a-chance-to-compete
("In its five years under Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su, AMD has scraped its way back to relevance. * * * Years of delays [in Intel's rolling out 10nm] have handed AMD a real chance to challenge Intel in the lucrative server-chips business, a market in which a single chip can cost close to $18,000. AMD said on Aug 7 that it has 7-nanometer server chips ready to order and that Google is already using them. Intel has delayed its older 10nm ['older' relative to (TSMC's) 7-nm; 'older' does not mean Intel had 10nm chips before] shipments until sometime next year. * * * When Su, an electrical engineer by training, became the first woman to run a chip company in 2014, she was AMD's fourth CEO in a decade. The company had lost money in six of those 10 years, and with glitchy chips that were weak imitations of Intel’s, its share of the server-chip market had gone from 26.2% to less than 1%. Today, it's still just 3.4% while Intel has pretty much all the rest, according to Mercury Research, but AMD's share is growing, and its share price has increased more than ninefold since Su took over, to about $32. 'It's all about earning credibility. Every single day,' Su says. Now that the chips have been redesigned from the ground up, she adds, 'We are structurally in a better place.' * * * As CEO, she's mostly kept her head down and focused on customer demands, compared with predecessors known for splashy product launches that often couldn't deliver on their promises or their jabs at Intel. * * * She also made the decision to move production of her best chips [from GlobalFoundries] to the factories of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co * * * Intel remains roughly seven times AMD’s market value, and its server unit alone last year recorded a profit of $11 billion, close to double AMD's annual revenue")
(a)
(i) summary underneath the title in print: Back from the brink, AMD is taking advantage of its larger rival's stumbles
(ii) Print and the online version are identical.
(b) scrape (vi): "to make one's way with difficulty : barely manage or succeed <just scraped through at school> <working two jobs and barely scraping by>"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrape
(c)
(i) keep
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/keep
("keep one's head down : to avoid attracting notice")
(ii) keep one's head down:
"1: [literal] <I had to keep my head down so my ex wouldn't recognize me as I walked by>
2: (idiomatic) to avoid trouble or attention"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keep_one%27s_head_down
(3) Mya Frazier, When Midwest Startups sell, Their Hometowns Often Lose.
Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Cities keep handing local companies tax incentives even after they've cashed in [meaning: local companies have sold themselves, been acquired], shortening schools
(b) There is no need to read text.
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