Dell Finally Goes for AMD

this great guy writes "You read it correctly. It had to happen one day. According to Forbes 'Dell Inc has informed its Taiwan contract makers of plans to develop devices based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc's microprocessors, and these suppliers are awaiting orders for global shipment, the Economic Daily News reported, citing industry sources.'"

Dell rumor...

[LaTechTech]

Maybe not... http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002 56F6C005C22FC482570C0002A51C7 [infoworld.nl]

No such luck

[magicchex]

Dell Dismisses Rumors [techwhack.com].

Dell has clarified that any rumors of it planning to manufacture a Dell PC based on AMD processors are false. Market has reported that the company had notified Taiwanese PC contract manufacturers to ready production lines to produce Dell PC systems using microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. the statement from the company now nullifies these rumors.

Taiwanese companies like Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. and Quanta Computer Inc. were mentioned in the rumor reports. Some of these Taiwanese companies are the biggest outsourced suppliers for Dell and they are usually the first one to see some of the newer products from the tech giant.

Dell has a special business relationship with Intel, which the market analysts claim gets them huge discounts. This is also said to be the reason why Dell does not build PC products using AMD processors despite high demands for them. However, the rumors of an AMD powered Dell became stronger after Dell started selling AMD processors on their web stores sometime back.

Re:Nothing but good...

[alienw]

the main reason AMD doesn't sell well is crappy marketing

Or perhaps because Dell doesn't offer AMD? You do realize that Dell has by far the largest market share?

5, Interesting?

[4r0g]

Moderators: The parent is meant to be funny and not even shooting for a "5, Interesting". Look at the linked story, it's the one about selling celerons as P4s. Dell would probably not benefit from selling fake P4 processors in the current situation.

Dell Denies Rumor

[everphilski]

http://news.techwhack.com/2510/211135-dell-denies- possibilities-of-an-amd-based-pc/ [techwhack.com]

Dell has clarified that any rumors of it planning to manufacture a Dell PC based on AMD processors are false. Market has reported that the company had notified Taiwanese PC contract manufacturers to ready production lines to produce Dell PC systems using microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. the statement from the company now nullifies these rumors.

Taiwanese companies like Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. and Quanta Computer Inc. were mentioned in the rumor reports. Some of these Taiwanese companies are the biggest outsourced suppliers for Dell and they are usually the first one to see some of the newer products from the tech giant.

Dell has a special business relationship with Intel, which the market analysts claim gets them huge discounts. This is also said to be the reason why Dell does not build PC products using AMD processors despite high demands for them. However, the rumors of an AMD powered Dell became stronger after Dell started selling AMD processors on their web stores sometime back.

)this was mentioned a few posts up but noone seemed to catch it)

-everphilski-

Re:Loyalty

[alienw]

We don't buy AMD because they're "better" than Intel - a clock is a clock

So, if you make a 286 and clock it at 10GHz, do you think performance will be the same as a 4GHz Pentium 4? Take a processor architecture class or something before spewing garbage like that.

Re:intel...

[gr8_phk]

Intels recent failures seem to include:

1) The Itanium
2) HT - Hyper threading - see recent articles about turning it off.
3) The P4 long pipeline used to inflate clock speed with lower performance/cycle
4) The new P4 core (preshot) - more watts, didn't come close to target of 5GHz.
5) Failure to commit to x86-64 resulting in lesser performance.
6) Late to the dual core party.
7) Continued use of the old buss making dual cores suck
8) Late to the integrated memory controller party (comming in like 2007).
9) Oh, and that whole Rambus thing.

If Intel had done what AMD did, and AMD did what Intel did, there would only be one left standing today. IMHO Intel has been living on it's brand name and huge production capacity for some time now.

Re:Next story: Remarked Semprons Sold As Athlons

[Zerbs]

I thought that Semperons WERE remarked Athlons. (in fact when they first came out with the Semperon line some motherboards reported them as Athlons)

Re:Real Men Use AMD

[PureCreditor]

>It's the width, not the length, that matters

Sexual innuendos aside, this has been true for pipelines too. Look at P4's outrageously long pipeline that got nowhere whenever you need to branch.

Whoops, pipeline_flush();

Re:And for Celerons disguised as P4.

[MPHellwig]

That 12% is before negotiating, if you talk to the sales I'm sure you can get a bit more, but that depends on there stocking and current prices on HD's and RAM, bottom line, always talk to the sales! It's not unusual to get a quarter or more off their advertised prices.

Re:This, is complete horse-shit.

[fbg111]

Getting Dell to ship AMD Boxes has nothing to do with marketing and EVERYTHING to do with Intel's anti-trust behaviour, and back-room dealings.

It also has to do with the fact that Intel's technology simply isn't competitive with AMD's, and that analysts are predicting [com.com] it won't even have a chance at being competitive again till 2009. Advertising side-deals or no, Dell can't afford to support the losing side that long. Dell may be able to sell Intel servers for cheaper up front, but Opteron's cost savings in power consumption and performance negate that advantage. Sun, HP, IBM, Newisys and other OEM's are about to start eating Dell's lunch with Opteron, Intel has failed to supply an answer, so now Dell's (sane) alternatives are constrained to one - add AMD to the mix.