Dell President and CEO Kevin Rollins has indicated that the company is actively considering including Advanced Micro Devices processors inside its server products in the foreseeable future. As of now, the PC and server maker remains the lone holdout among its competition in not using AMD chips. "My guess is we're going to want to add that product line in the future," Rollins said in an interview last week with InfoWorld editors. Rollins pointed to AMD's technology lead on Intel in the 64-bit category as the primary reason for the shift in Dell's Intel-only strategy.
"They've been getting better and better. The technology is better. In some areas, they're now in the lead on Intel. That is what is interesting us more than anything," Rollins said. With the release of its 64-bit Opteron chip for servers and 64-bit Athlon64 processor for desktops in 2003, AMD has won over every major computer manufacturer except Dell. Even Microsoft picked up AMD's 64-bit banner, designing its 64-bit version of Windows on AMD's architecture, not its traditional processor ally, Intel.
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