Finally, Dell to ship AMD Processors

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http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/05/19/dell_buys_amd_chips/

Dell's financial statement for its Enterprise business has the AMD announcement almost buried in a range of reports, but says that "In the enterprise, we will launch new ninth generation servers featuring Intel's Woodcrest microprocessors. Dell will also introduce new AMD Opteron processors in our multi-processor servers by the end of the year offering a great new technology to our customers at the high-end of our server line."

Ironically, it has chosen to finally bite the bullet and go AMD at a time when Intel is just readying technology that may be able to own AMD in both the server and desktop markets. If Core 2 Duo chips in both those spaces perform as well as expected, AMD could have a major problem on their hands.

Let's see whether Dell stay true to their word. Not that it bothers me, I still won't buy a Dell!

Edit: Few more articles
http://news.com.com/Dell+opts+for+AMDs+Opteron/2100-1006_3-6074059.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060519/earns_dell.html?.v=6

 

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So Dell can now buy AMD chip.. but the intel performance, and power requirements are going to improve beyond belief any time.

Exactly my thoughts. I don't really understand why Dell would do that when Intel looks set to smash everything that AMD currently offers.

Either way, it's good to see one of the 'big boys' finally recognising AMD, atleast in terms of server processors. So I guess AMD does have the resources and capacity to meet server market demands...

 

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Dell are the last of the "big boys" to recognise AMD. Every other major server company provides AMD chips because its what people want.
Dell are offering them because there customers are asking for Opteron's. AMD has plenty capacity to meet server demands.
Dell are only offering Opteron servers in the 4U+ variety. This is where Intel really have nothing to compete. Woodcrest still won't address that issue.

I guess you're right about Dell being the last one. They're still only testing the water though. They haven't said anything about using AMD processors in their desktop PCs which is where they make most of their sales. Maybe they'll use the Opterons as a stepping stone, and if all goes well they might finally offer a variety of either Intel or AMD CPUs in their desktop computers. Customers want choice. Right now Dell is not giving choice, they're "force feeding" customers.