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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.

6 of 212 comments (clear)

  1. Intel Inside :-) by muditgarg · · Score: 5, Funny

    AMD ofice has a grave in the front lawn saying Intel Inside . Looks like finally its gonna come true

  2. Re:Devil May Try AMD by kngthdn · · Score: 5, Funny

    You probably liked the "Dude, you're going to Hell" advertisements, too.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. Re:Dell is just speculating, like they did with Li by nierd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually I am a Network Engineer for a large multi-hospital system. I can tell you with over 1000 servers in our farm... MHZ is NOT the issue for servers.. 1. Is it reliable? 2. Does it have support for failover/hotswap 3. Does it run the software. 4. Does it meat budget requirements for the system and project? Those are the questions asked - if you knew anything about the real server marked you would understand that servers are typically several generations behind the latest and greatest. We still have servers in production that are P2 400 Mhz machines (dual processor) that run major medical systems that support over 400 users - these systems require 24/7 uptime and typically run at 99.96 % uptime (this is with windows NT 4.0) Don't even ask about the unix systems... IBM hardware that is ancient that supports over 1000 users - talking about 66mhz procs and such. MHZ is definatly not what we look at.