As Lehman Brothers ' bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch 's acquisition by Bank of America sent investors scurrying for safety Monday, technology vendors ranging from microprocessor company Advanced Micro Devices to server vendor Sun Microsystems began to feel pain.

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Early that year, the microprocessor-maker Advanced Micro Devices decided to acquire a graphics-chip company called A.T.

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For years, it has maintained links with Advanced Micro Devices as a foil against the dominance of Intel in microprocessor supply.

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Advanced Micro Devices struggled last year under the shadow of its rival Intel in the PC microprocessor market and against Nvidia in the discrete GPU market.

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