Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company

　　Named one of the Best Business Books of 1997 by BusinessWeek, Inside Intel is the gripping business saga of acompany that rose to dominance through technological innovation,and maintained its leadership against competitors throughaggressive marketing, tough business tactics, and liberal use oflegal firepower. In his in-depth portrait of Intel, the firsthistory/expose of the company, Financial Times columnistTim Jackson reveals that: * Intel's corporate culture isdeterminedly secretive and authoritarian. * The company retains itsown force of private investigators to prevent its employees fromgoing astray. * Intel routinely uses the threat of lawsuits againstworkers and rivals. At the center of this story is AndyGrove, Intel's high-profile CEO and chairman, once a pennilessimmigrant who waited tables to put himself through college. It isGrove who has made the unpopular decisions which have kept Intel atthe top of the chip market. Exhaustively researched from courtrecords, unpublished documents, and interviews with Intel'scompetitors, partners, and past and present employees, Jacksontraces the company's spectacular failures and successes, as well asthe powerful human struggles that have made Intel one of the mostcompetitive players in a high-stakes game.