AMD pleads with mobo makers to buy more CPUs

A REPORT in Taiwanese wire Digitimes said that AMD wants to ship 26 million desktop CPUs in the second half of this year and has asked its mobo partners to help out.

The wire claims AMD has tipped up at the first tier mobo makers and asked them to order more CPUs.

AMD shipped 9.5 million CPUs in the second quarter of this year, Digitimes claims. Unfortunately the wire doesn't give the first tier mobo makers' response to AMD's plea, nor how many extra they'd be asked to buy.

It's suggested that when Chartered gets online, it will churn out 32 per cent of the global desktop PC market.

AMD can ask mobo makers to buy more chips but even first tier mobo makers are being squeezed like a pip. However, our sources claim there's a shortage of some AMD CPUs in Europe - so perhaps there's no smoke without some fire. µ

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