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Dell to Use AMD Chips in its Servers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dogs-and-cats-living-together dept.

garfangle writes "Dell has decided to include AMD's Opteron processor in its product line of servers. This is the first time Dell has used AMD chips within its own Dell branded products (excluding the recently acquired Alienware computers)." From the News.com article: "The deal appears to be confined to servers at this point. The news came along with the release of Dell's earnings results, which were in line with the disappointing warning the company provided last week. Revenue was $14.2 billion, up 6 percent from last year, but net income slid 18 percent to $762 million. Several times during the last few years, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins has hinted that the company was right around the corner from introducing products based on AMD's chips."

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  1. Wohoo by dark_15 · · Score: 1, Funny

    At last.... my love is comin' home! Now this means we can't equate Dell with Hell in terms of heat output?

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  2. Now all they need is a server operating system. by zymano · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.reactos.org/

    Somebody company will eventually try it.

  3. Devil? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if Satan is wearing a hat with earflaps?

    1. Re:Devil? by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny
      I wonder if Satan is wearing a hat with earflaps?

      No, but he did just lose a snowball fight to Hitler...

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    2. Re:Devil? by 42Penguins · · Score: 5, Funny

      Congratulations, you are the first to invoke Godwin's Law in a discussion about server CPUs.

    3. Re:Devil? by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 2, Funny
      Congratulations, you are the first to invoke Godwin's Law in a discussion about server CPUs.

      Well of course by Law God would win, but he wasn't in the snowball fight, now was he?

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    4. Re:Devil? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Saying "Hitler" in a discussion doesn't mean Godwin's Law is invoked.

      Only a Nazi would think that.

  4. For the really Lazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dell blah blah blah AMD blah server blah.

  5. Great timing by griffinme · · Score: 5, Funny

    Satan needs his parka! Apple goes to Intel Dell goes AMD Next thing you know Vista will ship. Someone else mentioned Intel trying to strongarm Dell over this. I highly doubt it since Intel is currently in court over this kind of practice right now.

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  6. Simple solution: by karnal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Buy some earplugs and mount the server under your desk. Kills 2 birds with one stone... or 2 stones...

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  7. Dell is Doomed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This means Dell is doomed!

    Or was it Apple? Yes! This means Apple is Doomed!

  8. Circle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait a sec..
    Apple switches from PowerPC to Intel
    Dell switches from Intel to AMD

    Now all that's needed is for slashdotters to switch from AMD to PowerPC and the circle is closed!

  9. Perfect game servers... by 9mm+Censor · · Score: 2, Funny

    to host Duke Nukem Forever DM severs!

  10. Hardly surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > No, but he did just lose a snowball fight to Hitler...

    Well, you would have too! I mean, no one expected to see tanks used like that...

  11. So now we can order Dell AMD Linux servers by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 3, Funny

    and use them to crack the Human-Chimp Hybrid Genome from bone marrow from our monkey-loving human ancestors six million years ago!

    Say, that chimp's looking awful nice there ... woah, mind back to my work ...

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  12. Somewhere in Wall Street by this+great+guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Somewhere in Wall Street: "BUY AMD ! BUY AMD !"

  13. Re:Yay!! by croddy · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'll believe it when I see it.

    Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on me again. Fool me a third time with an Alienware merger... yeah, shame on me. Meet the new box, same as the old box. Won't get fooled again.

  14. Re:Reuters got it wrong by DamienNightbane · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I guess that means that Apple is not a "major PC maker" ?"

    You just now figured that out?