Advanced Micro Devices will use a little alchemy to compete better with Intel and other chipmakers in the portable computing devices market.
AMD said Wednesday that it would acquire Alchemy Semiconductor, maker of MIPS-based chips for devices such as PDAs and MP3 players. MIPS is processor architecture designed to offer high performance and low power for PDAs, networking and other non-PC devices.
AMD will also establish a Personal Connectivity Solutions business unit for non-PC connectivity devices. William Edwards, former CEO of Hesson Labs, will be named general manager of the new unit.
The acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Alchemy is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2002. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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