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Toshiba to use AMD chip in laptop PCs
TOKYO--Toshiba said it would buy microprocessors from Advanced Micro
Devices, ending its exclusive ties with Intel for its supply of chips, and
sending its shares higher.
Toshiba, the world's fourth-largest laptop PC maker, said Tuesday it expects
to put AMD processors in about 20 percent of the notebooks it sells in the
United States and Europe.
The move follows an announcement last year by Dell, which had been procuring
microprocessors only from Intel for more than two decades, that it would
begin using chips from AMD.
Intel is AMD's far larger rival with a market share of around 80 percent.
"With PCs becoming commodity products, there seems to be a new way of thinking
that competition should be introduced even in procurement of such core parts
like processors as long as there are no major differences in product
specifications," Macquarie Securities analyst Yoshihiro Shimada said. "This
could be a message that an era in which Intel took the lion's share of
microprocessor profits as the king of PC chips is over."
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| Tech News: | Updated: February 2008 |
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