Analysts Predict Dell to Use AMD

An anonymous reader writes "CNet reports on an analyst's prediction that Dell will begin using AMD chips, instead of their much-touted Intel processors." From the article: "Dell likely will reverse course and begin selling computers with Advanced Micro Devices' processors, Piper Jaffray analyst Les Santiago predicted Tuesday, sending the chipmaker's stock up 4 percent in midday trading."

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Re:Just a trick

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I want Xeon.

Almost all the stuff I work with at my new job is Dell/Xeon. We've got about a half rack of poweredge 1800's with dual xeons running our clusters, and all attaching to the Dell/EMC Fiberchannel SAN.

I don't have a problem with AMD chips. I use them at home, and on non-production servers, etc. And maybe I've bought into the Intel market hype. But, I don't think so - my experience colors my current opinion (or what's experience for?), and it's telling me that the reason I use Intel on production servers is simply this: Intel chipsets.

Yes, the NForce4 or the VIA whatever, or the AMD-brand dual-proc Athlon MP-based chipset offers whiz-bang feature #19145, but for server stability, I'll take Intel chipsets, thankyouverymuch.

Having said that, if we were to replace our 140 lab machines with newer models, and the models we got happened to be AMDs, that'd be fine with me. They're lab machines - they sit there and allow the students to compile whatever Fortran95 program or gd/php image transformer they're churning out this week.

~Will