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Dell: We'll Use AMD if You Demand It!

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Dell will love AMD
If its customers really really want them
By Nick Farrell: Friday 08 April 2005, 07:41

DELL SAYS that if its customers really, really demand AMD chips, the company will provide them.

The promise comes from none other than CEO Kevin Rollins, and is probably just another indication that Dell is twisting and turning like a twisty turny thing with the mighty Intel or is hanging out for a better deal with AMD.

Rollins comments were made at a press conference that took place at the conclusion of Dell's annual analysts' meeting for Wall Street and the news media.

Reuters claimed that the comments revived speculation that Dell could end its long-standing refusal to use AMD chips, although we have heard that all before.

The man himself said that Dell was "still looking at AMD; they have fairly good technology". Nice of him to say so.

But Rollins added that any decision to make AMD its second supplier of microprocessor chips would mean sweeping changes for related components inside its Dell PCs.

He claimed that the changes would drive up initial production costs, so Dell would turn to AMD chips only if customers demanded them. While Dell would "never say never", customers would have to demand it and the bottom line figures would have to be good, he said.

Rollins claimed that AMD might have trouble meeting additional demand for high-volume PC products, but not necessarily for chips used in high-end PC servers.
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Doubtful, but good for AMD if they do.
 
Id rather have the intel chips, I resell my dells and most people who pay more for a system that they can get from dell themselves for cheaper are confused by AMD processors. 😉
 
Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
Originally posted by: rbloedow
Haha - hasn't Dell be saying that they've been considering AMD for years?
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Yes, but apparently they actually are serious considering selling Opteron based systems.
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Suuuuuuuuuuure they are. This time it's NOT a tactic to get intel to give them deeper discounts on boards and chips. No way. I'll believe it when I can actually buy an AMD system with a Dell label. Not one second before.
 
Originally posted by: So

Suuuuuuuuuuure they are. This time it's NOT a tactic to get intel to give them deeper discounts on boards and chips. No way. I'll believe it when I can actually buy an AMD system with a Dell label. Not one second before.
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See thread summary 😛
 
Pentiums are hella easier to resell than Athlons will ever be. You say "Pentium 4 processor" and the customers' eyes glaze over. You say "Amd Athlon" and they get confused and go back to compusa 😛
 
Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
Originally posted by: So

Suuuuuuuuuuure they are. This time it's NOT a tactic to get intel to give them deeper discounts on boards and chips. No way. I'll believe it when I can actually buy an AMD system with a Dell label. Not one second before.
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See thread summary 😛
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Okay then -

Cliffs: I agree with JustAnAverageGuy
 
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
Pentiums are hella easier to resell than Athlons will ever be. You say "Pentium 4 processor" and the customers' eyes glaze over. You say "Amd Athlon" and they get confused and go back to compusa 😛
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Thats only true for a little while though. After a few hundred Dell commercials with "AMD inside" people would start to get it.
 
Dell has been very, very close in the past to using AMD chips, only to have Intel swoop in and sweeten the deal.
 
Originally posted by: JBT
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
Pentiums are hella easier to resell than Athlons will ever be. You say "Pentium 4 processor" and the customers' eyes glaze over. You say "Amd Athlon" and they get confused and go back to compusa 😛
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Thats only true for a little while though. After a few hundred Dell commercials with "AMD inside" people would start to get it.
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Too true. Dell could be the marketing machine that AMD isn't. The thing is, AMD is facing a catch-22. You need customer recognition to get Dell and you need Dell to get customer recognition.
 
Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Can AMD's total production capacity even satisfy Dell's CPU demands?
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If Dell will start to have a good part of its computers AMD based, the supply of AMD chips on the market will dry up. This will be bad for anyone that wants to buy AMD chips without a computer. Just think that Intel has more than 10 factories, against AMD's two.
 
Originally posted by: Calin
Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Can AMD's total production capacity even satisfy Dell's CPU demands?
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This will be bad for anyone that wants to buy AMD chips without a computer. Just think that Intel has more than 10 factories, against AMD's two.
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Yes.

11 > 2
 
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
Pentiums are hella easier to resell than Athlons will ever be. You say "Pentium 4 processor" and the customers' eyes glaze over. You say "Amd Athlon" and they get confused and go back to compusa 😛
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Sad, but true. 🙁

I will never buy another Intel proccesor. I'd rather buy VIA.

:Q

😛
 
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