Prologue: A half-billion-dollar mistake. Part one: Innovation. The odds-on favorite -- Two thousand starts a week -- The third and fourth men -- Into the potato patch -- A savior from Bucks County -- The rebels -- Yellow snow -- The microprocessor -- Public company -- Second source -- Turning failure to profit -- A new standard. Part two: Domination. Borovoy wins a patent battle -- A competitor on the horizon -- Penang burning -- Gopen beats the union -- The stopgap -- Marriages and divorces -- Organization and alpha particles -- The Microma mistake -- Crush! -- Whetstone's design win. Part Three: Exclusion. Seeq and destroy -- Checkmate Powell -- Microcode -- Gold -- The Vancouver complaint -- A scandal in Malaysia -- Davidian's bonus -- The new CEO -- An anonymous caller -- Lagging the Koreans -- Raising the tax -- The two Webbs -- Departures -- A question of drafting -- The traitorous two -- A hacker inside -- Tech support screws up -- The 1OX force. Epilogue: Winning the platform wars.