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21 February

Q&A: AMD coming back swinging on the quad-core front, exec says

AMD has recently seen rival Intel win a couple of rounds. So Marty Seyer, AMD’s senior vice president of commercial business, recently talked about where he believes AMD is situated with corporate customers.

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