I was also at Intel in Hillsboro on a paid internship at this time. I recall a ton of projects across so many areas, with loose management. There was a guy in a QA group I worked in who just day traded.
I was in the Product Development Group working on the Itanium chipset at the time. I remember an older Engineer in the group that had written his own stock trading book. He only lost a dollar per share when the market went from 72 to 18
