Dell sticks with Intel

It rhymes, and it’s true. Dell is not going to use the new AMD Opteron dual core processor even though many Dell customers are asking for the option. HP, IBM and Sun Microsystems have all announced that they are going to release servers based on the new AMD chip.

Why is Dell against the AMD processor? AMD’s performance has been proven to be equal to, or above, that of an equivallent Intel processor yet it comes at a lower price. Dell has hinted at using AMD’s CPU’s many times but it may have just been a way of getting lower prices out of Intel.

From the Yahoo! story:

Opteron’s integrated memory controller and multiple Hypertransport interconnects help it outperform Intel’s Xeon processor on many benchmarks, especially those that measure the performance of memory-intensive applications.

Again, why not use the AMD Opteron? Give your customers the option of better performance or you risk losing them to vendors that do.

Intel is not expected to release a dual-core Xeon until 2006.

Yahoo! Story

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18.Apr.05 Hardware, Technology

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One Response to “Dell sticks with Intel”

helpful_harry | April 18th, 2005 at 9:21 pm
I’m seriously over the AMD / Intel thing. AMD is a better marketer and great competitor . . . but just like Pepsi has done – AMD needs to focus on being No.2

People are switching off to the AMD marketing messages and it shows in their sales and share price (not to mention the profit warnings). Relax AMD and AMD fans, if you like AMD buy it and stop bitching.

I myself love Intel – they understand pride of ownership and everything reflects that – packaging, documentation, support, updates, you name it. You can not beat a P4’s content creation ability (video rendering, sound rendering and image manipulation) – just brilliant.