AMD has signed a deal to flog its server chips on Acer machines.

Acer will build machines based on the 6000 series of Opteron processors that AMD introduced today. Both sides are hoping to kick start their server offerings and fight off an attack from Intel.

Gianluca Degliesposti, an Acer vice president in charge of developing its server business said there wasn't a better moment for us to jump into the market. AMD’s new server-chip design, Magny-Cours, is the company’s first major push to recover ground. Acer is trying to do what it did in the laptop and desktop PCs market.

The products will be cheap and cheerful based around servers that use two chips. Acer entered the server market in December with computers using Intel chips. It has switched to AMD so it could offer customers machines with more memory.