14 DAY TRIAL // It was recently reported in the US based media that the leader in computers manufacturing, Dell, intends to adopt for its future products the processors produced by AMD, and that it has already bought no less than 2 million units, according to a report made by the Bank of America and cited by X-bit Labs. More precisely, about 16% of Dell's desktop workstations will be powered by AMD's processors and approximately 19% of its future to come notebooks will benefit from the company's chipsets.
"Back on Thursday Dell said that it would release desktops running microprocessors from AMD in September, but did not say anything about the notebooks, even though earlier an anonymous Dell executive in Asia confirmed laptops featuring central processing units from AMD. Despite of this, even if shipments of mobile computers with AMD chips are delayed to a later date that is not discussed at this time, shift of 15% of Dell's desktops to processors from Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker is a considerable hit for Intel Corp., who has been exclusive supplier of CPUs to Dell," reports X-bit Labs.
On Friday, Dell announced that it would adopt AMD's flagship processor - the Opteron, for its future to come desktop workstations. More exactly, Dell settled for AMD's 4P Opteron and 2P AMD Opteron processor-based server, which will be introduced in mass production at the end of this year.
"Dell's wider embrace of AMD processor-based offerings is a win for Dell, for the industry, and most importantly for Dell customers," said Marty Seyer, AMD senior vice president, Commercial Business, cited by Hardware Zone. "Dell's plan to expand the AMD footprint serves as a powerful statement on the strength of the AMD processor roadmap, as well as the demand that exists for AMD technology in Dell products. We look forward to working closely with Dell in bringing to their customers the benefits of AMD64 technology, the industry's open innovation platform."
If the company also settles for notebook processors, is still to be seen, as no official statement has been made up until now.