Dell Drops AMD Chips From Many Machines

Associated Press (excerpt) ^ | February 8, 2008 | David Koenig

[HAL9000]

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DALLAS (AP) — Dell Inc. has stopped selling many computers with processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on its Web site, although it will continue selling some through retailers.

The news was a setback for AMD, which wooed Dell for years before breaking the computer maker's exclusive supplier relationship with Intel Corp. in 2006.

Intel still made the processors used in most computers sold on Dell.com. But AMD raised its profile in the chip field by being inside some Dell machines.

Shares of Dell rose 2 cents, to $19.45, while AMD shares fell 25 cents, or 3.8 percent, to $6.34 Friday.

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[RepublitarianRoger2]

Well, no surprise there. Intel is trouncing AMD in every way.

[gondramB]

AMD chips and ATI video cards are just too hot for their performance.

[RayChuang88]

Intel won back its lead when they released the Conroe-core Core 2 Duo CPU's that ran way cooler and faster than its AMD counterparts. The latest Intel CPU's have built upon the Conroe CPU core, the first true "designed from scratch" core since the Pentium Pro CPU (people forget the Pentium II to Pentium 4 and Celeron CPU's were essentially derivatives of the Pentium Pro core).

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Yep. And with the current Penryn die-shrink (the “tick” in Intel’s tick-tock plan) and the upcoming radically redesigned Nehalem CPU (the “tock”), I think AMD is in a world of hurt.

Phenom isn’t phenomenal.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Dude your gettting a Dell but you ain’t getting an AMD bump.