One of Mr. Noorda's first moves was to kill the hardware division.

And Mr. Meadlock will be followed to the witness stand by Wade Patterson, the president of the company's hardware division.

Sony's efforts to integrate its software and hardware divisions "are going in the right direction, but it will take more time" to strengthen profits.

However, now that Google owns its own hardware division, the situation has changed.

Most new instructions were added to support the additional registers, as well as up to 32-bit math, hardware division, bit manipulations, and block transfers.

Genuine 6309 additions include inter-register arithmetic, block transfers, hardware division, and bit-level manipulations.

Firepower grew out of the hardware division of Next.

Ian Diery, who led the company's domestic sales organization and its hardware division, is resigning after losing an internal struggle.

"This is not the first time that the mouse has been threatened," said Brett Ostrum, general manager of Microsoft's hardware division.

Sales in Sun's important hardware division went into free-fall as customers closed shop and auctioned off high-end servers.