Toshiba, the 4th largest manufacturer of laptop PCs in the world, announced earlier this week that it would begin purchasing AMD CPUs to put in their laptop computers. Toshiba says it plans on putting AMD CPUs in about 20% of its laptop lineup. This breaks many years of exclusivity to Intel by Toshiba, which is a great thing for everyone. Intel's current Core 2 Duo processors may be faster right at the moment, but AMDs Turion chips have been show to be more energy efficient and create less heat, which is great for laptops especially. And competition is never a bad thing, especially in an oligopoly like the CPU industry. Toshiba plans to have several models with AMD processors out this summer. Systems with AMD chips sell for up to $82 less, on average, than a comparable model with an Intel chip.
Source: ZDNet
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