Dell to use AMD Chips in Desktop PCs

bain writes "MarketWatch reports that Dell has decided to use AMD chips in its Dimension desktops due next month. The move to use AMD chips signals a break from its long standing reliance on Intel chips. The information slipped out of Dell's quarterly earnings report." From the article: "Before the announcement, which had been speculated in the financial community and the press, Morgan Stanley analyst Mark Edelstone wrote in a research note: 'It should have a negative impact on Intel and it could be a large offset to the expected benefits from Intel's restructuring efforts.' AMD, which has become a more formidable competitor to Intel, has been expanding its manufacturing capacity, a sign that it expects to be shipping more chips. Its chief goal is to put itself in position to supply 33% of the global microprocessor market by 2008. "

It's opposite land!

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How often does a switch like this happen? Dell goes AMD, Macintosh goes Intel, what's next? Microsoft goes Linux?! /head asplodes

EVIL AMD!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now that AMD won't be the "poor but better underdog" we better start preparing ourselves to hate them!

Damn.

[bryanporter]

And here I was all hot and bothered, thinking they were going to move to Cyrix chips.

Oh well.

Reduced power consumption.

[Jerk City Troll]

Dell figured the reduced power consumption would leave more available for more effective explosions.

Re:It's opposite land!

[Anarke_Incarnate]

The next big thing is major corporations going diskless at the PC level

"This man has no disk"

Re:Magic Genies

[Chris Burke]

I like AMD, but Dell could put magic genies in their boxes and I would never buy one.

Well yeah, but that's just common sense. Djinnis sound great, but anyone who has ever read any mythology involving them knows that their wishes always come with unexpected twists and downsides.

For example, you might ask your djinni to compute the turbulence vectors around the air intake of the fighter jet you are designing. And he would instantly do so using single-precision floating point and the wrong rounding mode! Whoa betide those who trust in the djinni!