Dell will use AMD's Opteron chip. The PC maker has long been an Intel shop. But it intends to change that later in 2006, when it will begin offering a multi-processor AMD Opteron server. Dell, which announced its first-quarter earnings May 18, said in a statement that it would begin offering "AMD Opteron processors in our multi-processor servers by the end of the year offering a great new technology to our customers at the high-end of our server line." The Opteron server, likely to be a four-processor machine, will be sold alongside new Intel-based servers, Dell indicated.
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I gotta say, this is a pretty huge deal. Now I can get away from those AWFULLY hot Intel Xeons, especially the new PowerEdge 2850s and 6850s. Anyone that's stood behind a rack full of 2850s will know exactly what I'm talking about. Get a cool glass of Lemonade cause it's HOT back there!
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This is really some cool news, I love to see some intense competition between AMD and Intel as it makes both produce better products and drives prices down on both fronts. This has the potential to give Intel a major kick in the hind quarters to develop a superior product.
The bottom line is, I think AMD produces a superior processor for most every type of system except notebooks. This is not to say I wouldn't love to see Intel make something better but it's only because I am confident that AMD will couquor again.
Competition is the only a free market can work properly and thrive.
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i want to see how much will dell actually devote to amd. if dell markets 10 different intel based servers against to 2 amd based servers for anybody to buy, like the other companies are doing then it. then i think it will not matter much. are amd sales going down all of a sudden they are selling their cpu more expensive then many of intel's
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| i want to see how much will dell actually devote to amd. if dell markets 10 different intel based servers against to 2 amd based servers for anybody to buy, like the other companies are doing then it. then i think it will not matter much. are amd sales going down all of a sudden they are selling their cpu more expensive then many of intel's
Beg to differ. Dell's challenge has been that high performance computing (e.g. oil & has, research) prefers the Opteron over Xeon. This has hurt Dell's share of a fast growing market, and I would imagine that's one of the reasons Dell begins to market an AMD based system.
This is also an area where you don't need 10 different server types.
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...I guess Hell finally froze over.
Some people suspect that Dell's purchase of Alienware had something to do with this - as Alienware had an existing AMD product line.
I've got a big wall of Xeons too (well, not PERSONALLY, but I work on them) and those things are quite toasty indeed. They use up about half the air conditioning we have - and they're only like 25% of our machines (number-wise). Happily, they will be removed soon to make way for a nice, big, grizzly Opteron cluster (I can't wait).
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