Dell to Use AMD Chips in its Servers

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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For the really Lazy

[Anonymous Coward]

Dell blah blah blah AMD blah server blah.

Great timing

[griffinme]

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.

Simple solution:

[karnal]

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

Re:Devil?

[42Penguins]

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