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For years Dell would let it "leak" out to the press that they were looking at supporting AMD chips. It would happen every year like clockwork. Then after a mo
by Twirrim 9y ago
For years Dell would let it "leak" out to the press that they were looking at supporting AMD chips. It would happen every year like clockwork. Then after a month you'd hear that Dell and Intel had come up with a new deal to remain Intel exclusive.
- nandhp 9y agoHasn't Dell offered AMD chips for a long time? Dell currently sells AMD-based laptops, and was doing so back in 2008 as well. For example, this Ryzen laptop: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-15-5000/spd/inspiron-15-5575-laptop http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-15-...
- sitkack 9y agoThese are probably to prevent action from the FTC.
- ggg9990 9y agoI think they are talking about when Dell made serious profits in PCs.
- acdha 9y agoBefore then – in the 90s both Intel and Microsoft used a lot of backroom deals to keep big vendors exclusive. If memory serves it took the Opteron’s crushing performance advantage before we started seeing that break for Intel servers; Linux users for years were stuck paying for OEM Windows installs which were never used.
- Twirrim 9y agoYes, but I've been around the industry a while. I specifically remember this happening during the late 90s and just in to the 2000s. It was occurring at a time when AMD was fairly firmly beating Intel on a straight $/performance basis (~K6 era). If Dell had started shipping AMD based systems back then it could have been a big game changer. The general narrative around the tech press at the time was that Intel knew this and were desperate to keep Dell as Intel exclusive.