Gateway Retail Dumps Intel for AMD CPUs

Irvine (CA) - Gateway officially announced its new high-end retail desktop PC offering. And if you haven't seen these PCs in your local Best Buy already, there's a surprise: At least for now, the company has stopped offering Intel quad-core processors in its retail configurations and is using AMD quad-core Phenom 9500 and 9600 processors instead.

Gateway now offers three different Phenom quad-core configurations in U.S. retail stores. In addition to the Phenom 9600-based FX7020 gaming PC (priced at $1100), the company now ships what could be considered the first mainstream quad-core PC in retail, the GT5662, as well as a higher end multimedia version called the GM5664.

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