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"Didn't Boeing just lose a multi-billion dollar design to Airbus?"
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Airbus Wins easyJet Contract
For 120 Planes Over Boeing

By DANIEL MICHAELS and J. LYNN LUNSFORD
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL


Ending one of the fiercest jetliner-order competitions in recent memory, British budget carrier easyJet will buy jetliners from Europe's Airbus instead of adding to a fleet that now consists entirely of planes made by U.S.'s Boeing Co.

By landing the order, Airbus dealt a blow to Boeing's long-held position as the primary supplier for big low-cost carriers in Europe and the U.S. with its popular single-aisle 737. But the victory comes with a high price that may eventually haunt Airbus.
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AMD's New Opteron Chips
Are Tapped for Red Storm

By DON CLARK
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL


Endorsing the technology of one of Intel Corp.'s key rivals, Sandia National Laboratories and Cray Inc. plan to build a massive supercomputer using a soon-to-be-introduced line of microprocessor chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., people familiar with the matter said.

The development project, estimated in June to cost $90 million, is a high-profile vote of confidence for AMD's new Opteron chip, in a small but prestigious market long dominated by other chip suppliers. It represents a missed opportunity for Intel, which has been targeting its new Itanium line at high-performance computing applications.

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