Shortly after opening, AMD was down 43 cents to stand at $24.17, while Intel fell 24 cents to $19.12.
UBS downgraded AMD because analysts think Intel will put it under pressure. It thinks the new Intel cores will force AMD to drop prices on its Opteron products.
ATI (tick: ATYT) stood at $14.78, up six cents, while Nvidia (tock: NVDA) fell by 67 cents to $20.93.
Microsoft (tick: MSFT) was down 27 cents to $23.43, while Google (tock: GOOG) was down by nearly $5 to stand at $418.22.
Broadcom (tick: BRCM) was down 92 cents to $29.85, Transmeta was at $1.60, while Rambus (tick: RMBS) was up $1.88 to $24.65, probably because it re-licensed elements of its technology to Toshiba. µ