And now our first post for year 2008 coming from the AMD corner, a story which all AMD admirers will like. Advanced Micro Devices has reached a collaboration agreement with the Israeli Commex, a chip company founded two years ago by president and CEO Tal Horowitz together with brothers Yehuda and Zohar Zisapel who joined him as seed investors in the company. Horowitz comes from the Intel development center in Haifa, where he was involved as a senior member of the development team of the dual core processors. Now he is going to work for AMD. Under the deal, the chipset which Commex develops for multi-core processors will be distributed together with AMD's next-gen processor solutions. Commex is expected to begin continuous production in May of this year.

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