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To: dougSF30 who wrote (238492)	8/9/2007 1:51:35 PM
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Ruiz Says Chip Delay Limits Market Share Gains bloomberg.com Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Chief Executive Officer Hector Ruiz, seeking to wrest sales away from Intel Corp., said the chipmaker lost some orders by delaying a key new product this year. Advanced Micro, the No. 2 maker of personal-computer processors, fell behind on a chip called Barcelona when it tried to design too many new features at one time, Ruiz said. He had once expected the chip to be done ``early'' this year. Instead, it goes on sale this month and will be slower than intended. The first version of the semiconductor, sold under the name Opteron, helped Advanced Micro win more than 20 percentage points of market share from bigger rival Intel in the most-profitable area of the microprocessor market. With the delay, Advanced Micro gave back some of those gains, Ruiz said. ``If Barcelona hadn't been late, we'd have been in a very different situation right now,'' Ruiz said at a dinner with analysts and journalists late yesterday in San Francisco. ``We did lose ground in servers because we were late.''