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PC maker Dell decides to stick with Intel chips
The world’s largest PC maker Dell has dealt a blow to chip maker AMD’s quest to grow its share of the personal computer market by announcing that it will continue to only use Intel chips in its computers.
The world’s largest PC maker Dell has dealt a blow to chip maker AMD’s quest to grow its share of the personal computer market by announcing that it will continue to only use Intel chips in its computers.
It had been widely expected that Dell – which is the only major PC maker to single-source all its microprocessors – would start to use AMD as well as Intel chips.
But Dell chief executive officer Kevin Rollins has dashed this possibility by publicly denying that the company would put AMD chips in its computers.
In a speech to a group of financial analysts in Phoenix, US, Rollins said that Dell had decided to continue to use only Intel processors, claiming that the company had caught up with AMD.
"We believe that Intel has responded. That is now beginning to put customers more at ease that they don’t need to make a shift [to AMD processors]."
It had been widely expected that Dell – which is the only major PC maker to single-source all its microprocessors – would start to use AMD as well as Intel chips.
But Dell chief executive officer Kevin Rollins has dashed this possibility by publicly denying that the company would put AMD chips in its computers.
In a speech to a group of financial analysts in Phoenix, US, Rollins said that Dell had decided to continue to use only Intel processors, claiming that the company had caught up with AMD.
"We believe that Intel has responded. That is now beginning to put customers more at ease that they don’t need to make a shift [to AMD processors]."
