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With headlines this week like "AMD jumps into the netbook game," it sounded very much like Advanced Micro Devices was making a belated entry into the netbook segment.

But this isn't the case, according to AMD.

Inexpensive circuit boards can work reliably with the fastest AMD quad-core Phenom processors when modifications are made, according to a report.

This comes in the wake of mismatch issues between Phenom chips and select motherboards, as reported by Asia-based vendors.

Gigabyte AMD 780G-based motherboard

A few years ago, servers based around Linux and Intel/AMD chips decimated the market for high-end Unix servers.

The same thing is about to happen to in the storage market, says John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Sun Microsystems.

And this time, Sun hopes to be one ...