Aiming to get its software on more devices, the company this week announced dozens of new partnerships with manufacturers such as Toshiba (otc: TOSBF - news - people ), Alienware and Viewsonic, both privately held.

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Leaders in this sector are Samsung, Toshiba (other-otc: TOSBF - news - people ), SanDisk (nasdaq: SNDK - news - people ) and Hynix (other-otc: HXSCF - news - people ).

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Intel intc (nasdaq: intc - news - people) showed off notebooks from NEC and Toshiba tosbf (nasdaq: tosbf - news - people) equipped with the new power-saving Pentium IIIs and said that other companies--including Fujitsu and Sony sne (nyse: sne - news - people)--will also probably use them.

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While some market trackers show AMD losing ground in the high-performance workstation market (translation: PCs for engineers and other geeks), AMD is keeping the heat on in the laptop market, announcing a deal this month that will put AMD chips in 20% of PC vendor Toshiba 's (other-otc: TOSBF - news - people ) laptops.

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Its champions include Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ), Panasonic, Philips Electronics (other-otc: PHGZF - news - people ) and, of course, Sony, while Toshiba (other-otc: TOSBF - news - people ), Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and Sanyo (other-otc: SANYY - news - people ), support HD DVD.

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