AMD Chips in Dell Desktops Soon
While the announcement that Dell would start using AMD Opteron chips in its servers - breaking a 22-year exclusive deal with Intel - came last month, only recently did news appear that Dell would start using AMD chips in its desktops as well.
Apparently, we could start seeing AMD-based Dell desktops (perhaps even on the Dell XPS line) as early as September this year - a move which should inject the sort of variety and customizability Dell consumers have been asking for since AMD processors started showing real promise a few years back.
Now, this is definitely good news for us consumers. After all, anything that erodes Intel’s 80% market share will always boost competiton, right?
[News via IT Week]
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Intel Xeon 5100-powered Dell Servers Ready for Purchase | House of Dell said,
Pingback • September 6, 2006 @ 5:16 am
[…] Of course, until full reviews come in (that is, if they do), it’s hard to say whether or not Intel will succeed at regaining market share lost to AMD in the wake of Dell’s acceptance of AMD chips in both its servers and desktops. […]
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AMD-Dell Notebooks to Launch in Q4? | House of Dell said,
Pingback • August 4, 2006 @ 3:57 am
[…] Ever since Dell hooked up with AMD server-wise, the market has been buzzing with speculation on whether Dell with extend their partnership further. Last month, some signal rose from all the noise, with sources claiming that AMD-based Dell desktops would be appearing by September this year. […]