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Dell May Try AMD Chips For Some Servers

Posted by timothy on from the weeeeeellll-let-me-think-it-over dept.

LarsWestergren writes "According to InfoWorld, Dell may be close to adopting AMD processors. Don't get your hopes up too early though. It is mainly for servers (and possibly "gaming"?) since AMD doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to supply Dell with enough processors for the desktop. Furthermore, Dell have said similar things before, possibly to put pressure on Intel and get better deals from them. Still, this is definitely a PR win for AMD." Intel, though, has a lot more ad dollars to contribute.

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  1. HP already is by aqua · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not that I'm fond of them as a company or anything, but my employer buys thousands of HP's servers, and HP has been selling Opteron-based servers (e.g.) for some while now. Even if AMD never achieved sufficient penetration with ia32, there's some hope that they'll gain some of the ephermeral credibility by being first to market with a workable ia32-compatible 64-bit architecture.

  2. Re:Look at the stock prices over the last year... by realdpk · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not. AMD's market cap is 7.72B, Intel's is 51.97B. That's the main number that "matters" (although the stock price itself matters for some obscure psychological reasons)

    But don't feel bad, you still bet on the right pony.

  3. Actually that was Cyrix & they sold the proper by hajihill · · Score: 5, Informative

    From this article:

    The former Cyrix site in Richardson, Texas... we visited the site and met ebullient Jerry Rogers, the ex-CEO, who... proudly showed us round the property, which sported a mock gravestone marked "Intel Inside RIP" in the reception area....

    So ,unless AMD bought the famed gravestone and has decided to sport it at their offices now (and I found no evidence to suggest this) the parent might be mistaken.

    Also from the article: Cyrix, of course, was acquired by Via... who, it seems, faced some challenges netween their engineering and their business sectors after the acquisition. But, then again, when have these sorts of differences ever been news?

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  4. Re:Win-win situation for Dell by Nonesuch · · Score: 4, Informative
    I have a love-hate relationship with Dell.

    They sell both really solid machines (400SC?) and utter shitpiece machines (600SC). Sometimes you get a good deal and sometimes the stupid thing just crashes when you put 2 or more PCI cards in it.

    Their only saving grace is that once you figure out the right machine for your needs, they usually keep selling them for a while so you can buy another one when you need it.

    The issue I have with Dell is that they will change out a couple of the chipsets on a machine, but keep selling them under the exact same model number, and just ship updated Windows drivers for the new chips.

    This is fine, assuming you are running windows on the machine in question.

    Rather than wait for Dell to make up their mind about AMD chips, we are switching to Opteron-powered Sunfire servers.

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  5. Re:I don't really get this market cap stuff.... by gad_zuki! · · Score: 4, Informative

    All the "market cap" is this: stocks x price.

    So its pretty much how much money you would need to buy the company/what the company is worth.

    Intel is a MUCH bigger company than AMD. They have more plants, people, sales, etc. So all that capital is simply worth more.

    More info here.