Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Toshiba's exclusive relationship with Intel has come to an end with the announcement that a forthcoming model will be fitted with a processor from AMD.
Details of the new model are extremely sketchy, though Toshiba officials have indicated it will be an entry-level notebook for the US and European markets.
The company last used AMD chips around seven years ago. Since Toshiba is the fourth largest notebook manufacturer, the news will be a PR boost for AMD even if it is financially less significant than recent similar announcements from HP and Dell.
Toshiba reportedly plans to extend the use of AMD chips to its midrange models. As much as one-fifth of its sales in the US and Europe could include the AMD parts, implying Intel could miss out on sales of over one million units per year. A million of anything is a lot, but the global production of Intel and AMD based PCs, servers and notebooks is expected to be around 260 million in 2007.
During AMD's antitrust action against Intel, it alleged that "Toshiba received a very substantial payment from Intel in 2001 not to use AMD processors. Toshiba thereupon dropped AMD. Its executives agreed that Intel’s financial inducements amounted to 'cocaine,' but said they were hooked because reengaging with AMD would jeopardize Intel market development funds estimated to be worth $25-30 million per quarter."
David Bass
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