AMD processors are starting to find their way into more and
more PCs around the globe. Last year, PC giant Dell announced that it would
begin shipping PCs with AMD processors inside. Since that time, the company
has shipped desktops,
servers
and notebooks
which use Athlon 64, Turion, Sempron and Opteron-based processors.
Today, #4 worldwide PC manufacturer Toshiba announced
that it too would be adding AMD processors to its stable. The company said
that it will use AMD processors in 20 percent of its business and consumer notebooks.
"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," said Yoshihiro Shimada, an analyst
for Macquarie Securities.
Toshiba's first notebooks to use AMD processor will roll off
the assembly line during the summer and will cost as much as $82 USD less than
their Intel counterparts.