Toshiba's on the AMD bandwagon, announcing that it will end its exclusive deal with Intel and pack notebooks with chipsets from the market leader's little rival. Toshiba, the world's fourth-largest maker of computers, will slip the cheaper chips into 20 percent of models destined for sale in the west.
AMD, longtime lord of the better-bang-for-your-buck processor, has been quiet of late, ceding attention to Intel as it struggled to make noise in the era of multicore and low-power processors. That fundamental truth regarding price and power has always remained, however, and it was only a matter of time before the allure of knocking almost $100 off a product, for little appreciable performance loss, kicked in again.
Toshiba to use AMD chip in laptop PCs [Reuters]
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