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Which brand CPUs does your company/employer work with?

Freddie1980 said:
If they did then they would have been limited to small choice of products, much easier to swallow their own pride and buy a bunch of Intel based machines direct from Dell.
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Well, it isn't so bad - Intel's propaganda works really hard, though.
For office machines back in 2011, that was enough performance, given the load is only browsing and office - word, powerpoint, excel.


https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A6-3600+APU&id=25


https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-2350M+@+2.30GHz&id=758
 
There was a real shortage of Intel laptop CPU's about a year ago, through to Feb/March 2020 at least. I can't remember why, but it messed with supply chain in the UK of e.g. Lenovas at least.

In my firm (80k+ employees worldwide, Tech) we have some flexibility, and AMD driven laptops appeared on the recommended choice list due, I expect, to this Intel supply bottleneck.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Dell, intel on everything.
If there are issues i dont think amd will help as much as intel would.
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Dell considered switching to AMD, but its executives feared the "double whammy" of seeing a huge chunk of its rebates not only vanish, but shifted to a competing computer maker. By mid-2004, Intel was paying Dell about $300 million per quarter in rebates -- or more than one-third of its quarterly net income.

But Dell continued to lose share, revenue, and reputation by not shipping the Opteron. On November 4, 2005, then CEO Otellini reported back to colleagues on a call he had received from Michael Dell, Dell's then chairman: "[Michael Dell] opened by saying 'I am tired of losing business'... 'Dell is no longer seen as a thought leader.'" Later that month, Michael Dell emailed his own people writing, "We are losing the hearts, minds and wallets of our best customers."

But Otellini countered Michael Dell's complaints by, according to Otellini's email, reminding him, "We are transferring over $1 billion per year to Dell for [MCP] efforts. This was judged by your team to be more than sufficient to compensate for the competitive issues." When advised in February 2006 that Dell's then CEO Rollins had decided to stay with Intel chips, Otellini emailed a colleague calling Rollins "The best friend money can buy."
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https://money.cnn.com/2009/11/13/technology/intel_settlement_emails.fortune/
 
Dell Intel here, the Latitude 5400s we have are hot, throttling pieces of **** though, lots of complaints into our IT guys about them.
If got an option to swap something a bit thicker and with better cooling solution, Intel or AMD, I'd swap, as so much of the potential of even the i7-8665U in this is sucked out of it by the fact it literally runs at 100 degrees and has to throttle itself regularly under moderate load. (Having to multitask with a work computer...never! /facepalm)

Dell Service Ops even admitted they run this hot and throttle heavily as standard when they sent out a guy to replace the heatsink and motherboard on my unit, that made a marginal improvement. Both the guy on the ground and the guy he spoke to on the phone basically said these units run at 100 degrees regularly and these units are just not particularly fit for purpose, they made them a few mm thinner, and sacrificed the necessary cooling to allow these chips to perform anywhere near their best.
 
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Lot of the older IT guys wont budge from intel. If we had amd server and had a crash be it cuz of software instant finger pointing at amd and a combo of i told you so's
 
In the past, buying Intel was always the safe option, with all the security stuff coming up, not convinced that is the same anymore.

Honestly though, would love to get rid of this POS machine, for ANYTHING else, Dell, Intel, AMD, whatever, anything modern that doesnt throttle itself to death to stop from cooking. It's bad enough here in the UK, I have colleagues in Israel etc, and you can only imagine how bad they get there.
 
HP Laptops, mix of HP/Dell Desktops. Few Dell Laptops.
HP laptops and desktops definitely better than Dell. The HP warranty service is miles better than Dell's/
Intel i5 mixture upto i5 8500 for gen office
Intel i7 upto i7 9700 for Developers
 
I find it disturbing that there is no pressure on Intel to release new, better and more power-efficient processors.

The company lags behind like offering only half of the top performance that AMD can offer and still the customers stay silent and in some type of weak position against Intel.

What's going on, really? Why does the whole world owe Intel something?
 
Predominantly Intel in my place - Lenovo servers and Dell laptops. In my lab, we have a mix of Intel based HP & Cisco servers / appliances, a couple of nice Dell EPYC servers (Gen 1 & Gen 2) + a lab mule I'm building using a R9 5950X and Asus WS Pro X570 board.
 
Mr Oblong said:
Dell, Intel, right down the line.
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Snap. 100% Intel AFAIK.

You still frequently hear AMD regarded as a cheap knock-off. Think Cyrix.

Cyber-Mav said:
Lot of the older IT guys wont budge from intel. If we had amd server and had a crash be it cuz of software instant finger pointing at amd and a combo of i told you so's
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So much this.
4K8KW10 said:
:confused: This is weird. Intel technology is inferior - starting from performance, energy efficiency, prices, security vulnerabilities, ethics, crimes, everything extremely dark and bad.
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Multi-year contract with Dell who will only supply Intel to corporates.
 
4K8KW10 said:
I find it disturbing that there is no pressure on Intel to release new, better and more power-efficient processors.

The company lags behind like offering only half of the top performance that AMD can offer and still the customers stay silent and in some type of weak position against Intel.

What's going on, really? Why does the whole world owe Intel something?
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We've mostly laptops with Ryzens but everything else is Intel AFAIK.

There is no supply of AMD chips. Doesn't matter if they are better if you can't actually get them.
Also supply lines are long. I'm sure most of our stuff was ordered months before we got it. I know they talk about servers arriving for at least 12-18 months before they actually get operational.

Our place hoards new gear. Literally some of workstations (Dual Xeons) were ancient before they were replaced by new machines.
When some of the new machines failed, DOA etc turns out they'd be in storage so long their 3 and 4yr warranties had run out. Super expensive paperweights.
 
I suspect the big shift in big companies won't be to AMD, but to ARM and Apple M1 etc.
If you are mostly cloud based doesn't really matter what you are running. Servers moving to ARM is the next shift.

A lot of what we order goes out to tender. Often only one supplier replies. Only reason we moved to Ryzens on the laptops (I assume) was price, and availability. Not performance or efficiency.
We replaces all our stuff in 2019. So pre Covid. So the supply issue was before COVID.
 
We shifted from Android Phones to iPhones for security reasons. I wonder will that become an issue for Microsoft. Considering recent hacks.
 
I would have bought either a budget gaming rig with a AMD before xmas and a gaming Laptop. But there has been no stock for months. You can buy top end stuff, not the lower end stuff at all.
Lots of availability on intel stuff.
 
Laptops with Intel i5-10210U are poor performing - slow, hot and loud.

Guys, ask your employers for AMD only based systems!

Intel is a garbage company now, they lie all the time about the reliability of the products.
 
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