Advanced Micro Devices, Intel's biggest rival in personal computer processor chips, added 53 cents, to $15.82.
A.M.D.'s revenue from personal computer processors grew 36percentto to $554 million.
Advanced Micro Devices, Intel's top rival in the market for personal computer processors, began selling faster models of its chips.
Advanced Micro, the world's second-largest maker of personal computer processors, and Infineon, Europe's No.2 chip maker, are working with the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft research institute.
Advanced Micro Devices, which competes with Intel in the field of personal computer processors, said sales fell more than forecast in the third quarter.
The company ended the fourth quarter with 23percentt of the market for personal computer processors, according to Dean McCarron, an analyst at Mercury Research in Cave Creek, Ariz.
The manufacturers of personal computers, processors and other hardware have been hurt the most by this trend, but Oracle's performance may raise questions about whether business software makers are starting to feel the pinch, too.
Advanced Micro Devices, which competes with the Intel Corporation in personal computer processors, will delay the desktop version of its Hammer chip by a few months, its marketing manager, John Crank, said yesterday.
After years of following Intel 's lead, Advanced Micro Devices changed course Tuesday and launched a line of personal computer processors with features typically found only in high-end computers and servers.
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices fell 4.2percentt after the company, the world's second-biggest maker of personal-computer processors, said quarterly sales trailed a forecast reduced 15 days ago.
