Dell Looking Seriously At AMD

15 Nov, 2004 at 11:18pm ET Article published in Tech

Dell Chief Executive Kevin Rollins on Monday gave the most direct indication yet that a deal with Advanced Micro Devices may be on the way, dropping a strong hint that an agreement with the chipmaker was a question of when, not if.

Speaking in Paris at the launch of Dell’s first blade server, Rollins commented on reports last week that Dell has been studying the possibility of using AMD chips.

Rollins confirmed that the company has been investigating and testing AMD processors very seriously. “Recently, we have had a much more favorable disposition,” Rollins said, “because some of (AMD’s) products in high-performance computing are very good and in some cases (are) more advanced than those of Intel. We have looked more closely and more seriously than ever before.”

It’s about time Dell. -KF

Source: ZDNet

Comments

15 Nov 2004 ~ 11:24pm EMT

KingFish wrote:

It's about time Dell. -KF

Seriously.
15 Nov 2004 ~ 11:27pm Geeky1 It was time when the slot athlons came out. better late than never tho I guess.
15 Nov 2004 ~ 11:46pm QCH When I last spoke to our Dell Rep. regarding AMD, he looked like Michael Flatley in "Lord of the Dance". (In other words, he tap danced around the issue of AMD).

Do you think we'll see Dell's Cheapest PC's drop under the $250's?
16 Nov 2004 ~ 10:53am GHoosdum Dude... Dell's getting a clue!
17 Nov 2004 ~ 8:34pm danball1976 Well, take a look at the price rally in the recent weeks.
20 Nov 2004 ~ 12:45am Leonardo I'm really cynical about this. I bet that Dell is: 1) sending a signal that they would consider AMD if AMD were to offer a sweetheart deal, such as 'Intel Inside' marketing subsidizing or, 2) sending a signal to Intel that Intel must provide better pricepoints to Dell. There's no question with anyone who keeps up with PC tech that AMD is the performance leader (except for mobile). But Chipzilla's warchest of cash reserves is still enormous enough to grant big concessions to Dell if they must.