The Wall Street Journal: AMD, For Now, Steps Up Competition With Customers

Advanced Micro Devices put itself in an unusual position by buying the startup SeaMicro earlier this year. Now AMD AMD +3.87% not only sells chips, but also server systems–competing, at least to some extent, with computer makers that buy its chips.

It just raised the ante. The AMD unit that includes the former SeaMicro operations late Monday announced a new server as well as plans to use its underlying technology to help customers exploit an unusually large pool of data storage.

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