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Chipmakers: New item may aid AMD

Advanced Micro Devices Inc, Intel Corp's biggest rival in PC processors, is poised to benefit from sales of its new line of processors code-named Hammer, Barron's reported. AMD has developed a microprocessor that may enable it to expand its market share to 30 percent from the about 20 percent now, the paper said, citing Fred Hickey, publisher of the High-Tech Strategist newsletter in Nashua, New Hampshire. The California-based company has the advantage over larger rival Intel's microprocessors because the Hammer chip can run both high-speed 64b software and the lower 32b software, Barron's said. Hickey said the company's Dresden, Germany, chipmaking plant and its partnership with Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (聯電), the world's No. 2 supplier of made-to-order chips, will help AMD overcome manufacturing problems, Barron's said.
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