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Dell Still Intel Only
wyckedone writes "Dell Computers has no plans to offer the new dual-core AMD Opteron even though it has been proven that "Opteron's integrated memory controller and multiple Hypertransport interconnects help it outperform Intel's Xeon processor on many benchmarks, especially those that measure the performance of memory-intensive applications.". HP, IBM and Sun Microsystems have all announced that they are going to release servers based on the new AMD chip. Why not offer customers an alternative that has better performance instead of risking the lose of those customers to another vendor that does? Intel has no plans to release a dual-core Xeon until 2006."
Jews only business I'm afraid. hint to AMD drop your prices to Dell really low to hurt Intel, Dell will never buy from you anyway.
Do you people even understand SUPPLY CHAIN?! It's not just about pumping out high volumes. IF I was Dell, I would clearly pick AMD no question. Why?
Cause AMD does not spread their engineering and manufacturing resources thin across hundreds of products. AMD don't make motherboards, network cards, serial ATA controllers, optical cards etc.
AMD's only focus is PROCESSORS! From a supply chain 101 perspective, AMD would be golden cause they only focus on the thing they supply you. If you were building a house would you like to buy wood from Sears or a company that only focus on wood? It's a no brainer. I respect Intel, but they are playing so dirty.