Better Buy: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. vs. Cypress Semiconductor Corp.

Investors with a preference for tech stocks have a lot of choices these days. Technological revolutions seem to lurk around every corner, and for every explosive new market or opportunity, there are several companies poised to compete. According to Finviz.com, there are more than 500 stocks in the tech sector today, not counting 250 micro-cap penny stocks.

Amid such a plethora of investment choices, and with such a change-prone industry, it can be harder than usual to distinguish the companies on track to be long-term winners from those more likely to become failing wannabes. As an example, let me walk you through the investing cases for and against embedded chip specialist Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CY) and graphics-plus-CPU veteran Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD).

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