AMD schmoozes the channel, officially releases "Black Edition"

THE FIRM whose employees now have to go play American cricket on someone else's level playing field said that it has a cunning new scheme to woo the channel.

It said its AMD "validated solutions" programme will include 1P server mobos with a choice of 10 mobos from the usual suspects including Supermicro, Tyan, Asus, ECS, Gigabyte and MSI.

It also wants the channel to start flogging its 6400+ X2 "Black Edition" - a programme for gamers which has a 3.2GHz dual core processor chip, DDR2 memory and a 2MB L2 cache at price of $251 without a fan in the processor in a box category. µ

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