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Toshiba is ending its collaboration with the Intel Corp. concerning the brains of its computers. Now the company is tying the not with AMD.
The world's fourth-largest laptop PC maker expects to put AMD processors in about 20 percent of the notebooks it sells in the United States and Europe.

According to Macquarie Securities analyst this could mean that an era in which Intel took the lion's share of microprocessor profits as the king of PC chips is over.Toshiba plans to put AMD chips in moderate-priced standard models for individual and corporate clients.

Prices of AMD-equipped PCs are expected to sell for up to 10,000 yen ($82) less than comparable models.
Toshiba will install AMD chips in some models to be released this summer, enabling it to reduce parts-procurement costs by at least 10 percent.