According to DigiTimes, Dell plans to buy 20 million AMD processors that will be used in Dell's servers, desktop PCs and notebooks between the fourth quarter of this year and the fourth quarter of 2007. Dell will use four million AMD processors in its notebook line while 16 million will appear in Dell's desktop and server products according to DigiTimes' sources.
Sources in the Taiwan notebook industry pointed out that AMD has progressively expanded its presence in the notebook sector, by adding Dell as one of its major supporters in addition to HP and Acer. Obtaining Dell's support would better convince domestic notebook manufacturers to divert more R&D facilities and resources to AMD-based products, the sources indicated.
On May 18, AMD announced that Dell stated in its quarterly earnings statement that it intends to offer AMD Opteron dual core processor-based servers. According to Dell's August 17 press release, the PC vendor will launch Dimension desktop computers with AMD processors in September and will introduce a two-socket and multi-processor server using AMD Opteron processors by the end of 2006. So far, announcements of Dell's notebooks with AMD processors have not yet been made; though various rumors have circulated that Dell's first AMD-based notebook will be introduced in the fourth quarter of 2006.
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