Yahoo! News: Dell drops AMD chips from many machines
Dell Inc. has stopped selling many computers with processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on its Web site, although it will continue selling some through retailers.
The news was a setback for AMD, which wooed Dell for years before breaking the computer maker’s exclusive supplier relationship with Intel Corp. in 2006.
Intel still made the processors used in most computers sold on Dell.com. But AMD raised its profile in the chip field by being inside some Dell machines.
Shares of Dell rose 2 cents, to $19.45, while AMD shares fell 25 cents, or 3.8 percent, to $6.34 Friday.
Dell’s move caused a stir online that the company tried to tamp down. A spokesman, David Frink, called the development — which Dell disclosed to consumers on the company’s Web site — “not even all that interesting.”
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