Dell buys AMD chips

THE INTEL only shop, Dell, has decided to start using an AMD Opteron chip in one of its high-end servers.

Dell CEO Kevin Rollins said that it was a fairly small category and so it was not an abandoning of the glorious alliance between Intel and Dell.

That was not to say that Dell would not use AMD chips in its PCs or other servers in the future, but whatever happened, Intel would remain number one, he said.

Out of all the PC products that Dell was planning this year all of them will use Intel chips, but he didn't say what would happen next year.

Rollins said that Dell had not moved to AMD in its server products sooner because it had been "waiting to see what its customers who bought its servers wanted".

"AMD was very successful, so we are using it," he said.

Chuffed AMD senior vice president Marty Seyer said he was pleased to see Dell "listening to their customers" and providing them the choice of AMD products, he beamed. µ