Phynaz
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- Mar 13, 2006
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@Phynaz, what makes you assume, that all Dells Corporate customers, would switch to HP (because of a amd cpu)?
is it because the corporates cant get enough performance for their workers desktop pcs? how much cpu does a office workload require? more than AMDs cpus can deliver? or are you calling Corporate customers Intel fanbois that buy intel for no reason other than the name?
What is AMD's penetration in the corporate market. For servers we know it's less than 10%. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say for desktop it's 20%.
So now Dell buys AMD and drops Intel. 90% of your server customers and 80% of your desktop customers now need to re-qualify your product. A number of customers will say "Intel is our standard". That number is going to be very high, and they are going to walk. That's how corporations are, there's nothing fanboi-ish about it.