Inquirer: Dell drops AMD from its website offerings

[gr8mikey]

This one from Charlie Dmerjian himself. I took a quick look over at dell.com and sure enough the only AMD offering I saw was an inspiron 531 desktop. I suspected this might happen after Michael Dell took back over and in light of the current Phenom issues. As I recall Mr. Dell got burned by AMD mfg problems years ago. If only they had gotten Phenom and Barcelona right......

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/08/dell-dumps-amd

At any rate I guess dell will continue to use AMD for their bargain basement wal-mart offerings. Too bad really....

edit: they are also offering an inspiron 1501 notebook that is AMD powered.

 

[evongugg]

Dell to Stop Selling AMD Based Computers Online

For years, users wanted Dell to include AMD processors in Dell builds. In May 2006, Dell was happy to announce that they were bringing AMD on board. Everything seemed to be working out, until now. Dell recently announced that they're discontinuing almost all AMD-based Dell computers. The few ones that are left cannot be purchased online, and are only found in stores like Best Buy and Circuit City. This is likely to be a huge blow for AMD, and could not have come at a worse time. AMD recently posted abysmal revenue/loss figures for Q4 2007, and is running a company (ATI) that is worth 30% less than it was at the time of initial purchase. Hopefully, AMD will find more people to sell their processors

 

[adlertheman]

doesn't seem legit!

 

[LukeBird]

Dell to Stop Selling AMD Based Computers Online

For years, users wanted Dell to include AMD processors in Dell builds. In May 2006, Dell was happy to announce that they were bringing AMD on board. Everything seemed to be working out, until now. Dell recently announced that they're discontinuing almost all AMD-based Dell computers. The few ones that are left cannot be purchased online, and are only found in stores like Best Buy and Circuit City. This is likely to be a huge blow for AMD, and could not have come at a worse time. AMD recently posted abysmal revenue/loss figures for Q4 2007, and is running a company (ATI) that is worth 30% less than it was at the time of initial purchase. Hopefully, AMD will find more people to sell their processors

Was that a quote??
The end bit isn't quite true "AMD recently posted abysmal revenue/loss figures for Q4 2007", the figures for Q4 weren't really that bad for AMD, certainly nothing like the beginning of the year (as far as I recall...). Interesting if it's true though. Although as Gateway have just picked AMD, perhaps not a mega blow?

 

[Ycon]

Dell should have never gone AMD.
Opteron was only good before the first Woodcrest numbers leaked into the net and that timeframe was when Dell had to introduce like 1 or 2 AMD-based WSs/Servers, but they missed it.
Their whole AMD-thing went 100% wrong.

 

[San Pedro]

Too bad for AMD, I hope they can recover from the abysmal year they had in 2007.

 

[jimmysmitty]

I am sure someone is going to try to see this as Intel being anti-trust. It makes sense though. Phenom is underperforming and AMD probably cant manufacture enough Optys for Dell to sell or wont sell them to Dell due to the TLB.

 

[grieve]

I am sure someone is going to try to see this as Intel being anti-trust. It makes sense though. Phenom is underperforming and AMD probably cant manufacture enough Optys for Dell to sell or wont sell them to Dell due to the TLB.

My sentiments exactly..

If this article is true I bet in the near future we will see a headline ‘AMD suing INTEL cause they need to blame someone’

 

[tgstyle]

AMD is already suing Intel for anti-trust...

Have you read the Headlines...

 

[evongugg]

Was that a quote??
The end bit isn't quite true "AMD recently posted abysmal revenue/loss figures for Q4 2007", the figures for Q4 weren't really that bad for AMD, certainly nothing like the beginning of the year (as far as I recall...). Interesting if it's true though. Although as Gateway have just picked AMD, perhaps not a mega blow?

http://www.techpowerup.com/52003/Dell_to_Stop_Selling_AMD_Based_Computers_Online.html

 

[grieve]

tgstyle, they can have multiple lawsuits...

If John is caught steeling he gets charged, if he gets caught again he faces another charge.

***edit**
Which i am sure you know

 

[jimmysmitty]

So even if Mr Dell himself stated it was his decision AMD will try to blame Intel. They will state Intel forced it when it was their CPUS not performing.

 

[function9]

And a lot of people thought Apple was crazy when they made the announcement to use future Intel cpus. Hmm.

 

[dario77]

http://www.amdzone.com/index.php/news/chipsets/38/9009-dell-stops-selling-amd-powered-machines-online


looks like more inquirer BS, folks.

 

[kpo6969]

http://www.amdzone.com/index.php/news/chipsets/38/9009-dell-stops-selling-amd-powered-machines-online


looks like more inquirer BS, folks.

You got that right:

http://www.gearlog.com/2008/02/dell_finetunes_amd_retail_stra.php

 

[doubled]

Right, so they will sell AMD in the commodity machines, like HP and emachines. You just can't get one in a build to order, high end desktop or laptop. Sounds like a pretty clear message to me.........

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

the figures for Q4 weren't really that bad for AMD, certainly nothing like the beginning of the year (as far as I recall...). Interesting if it's true though. Although as Gateway have just picked AMD, perhaps not a mega blow?

You do realize that AMD did not profit? The object isn't to break even, but rather to have embarrasingly huge profits (ex: Intel).

 

[bfellow]

THESE ARE MOST RECENT ARTICLES:

Dell is partly dropping AMD. Dell sent a memo clarifying the disclaimer they had on the website which they pulled later.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/dell-confusingly-committed-to-amd

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0850162420080208

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120249602745754333.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22889180.htm

http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206107096


Possible reasons for Dell product shift:

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22890910.htm

Phenom 9750 and 9950 in end of Q3 08

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/amd-delaying-quad-core-phenom-9700-and-9900-once-again

 

[jimmysmitty]

THESE ARE MOST RECENT ARTICLES:

Dell is partly dropping AMD. Dell sent a memo clarifying the disclaimer they had on the website which they pulled later.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/dell-confusingly-committed-to-amd

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0850162420080208

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120249602745754333.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22889180.htm

http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206107096


Possible reasons for Dell product shift:

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22890910.htm

Phenom 9750 and 9950 in end of Q3 08

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/amd-delaying-quad-core-phenom-9700-and-9900-once-again

It makes sense to me why they would do that. If Mr. Dell is a true PC person he wants 2 things. One thats has a good price/performance ratio and something you can get. Not to mention without problems.

As for the new chips(and I like how they are pulling the same naming scheme as Intel/ATI has) that wont restor consumer confidence as by then it will probably be too late. They will be coming right before the dawn of Nehalem. This may stagnate the CPU segment though as Intel has nothing to compete against. Sad.

 

[turpit]

This one from Charlie Dmerjian himself. I took a quick look over at dell.com and sure enough the only AMD offering I saw was an inspiron 531 desktop. I suspected this might happen after Michael Dell took back over and in light of the current Phenom issues. As I recall Mr. Dell got burned by AMD mfg problems years ago. If only they had gotten Phenom and Barcelona right......

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/08/dell-dumps-amd

At any rate I guess dell will continue to use AMD for their bargain basement wal-mart offerings. Too bad really....

edit: they are also offering an inspiron 1501 notebook that is AMD powered.

Hey gr8mikey, good to see ya.

You know, normally it makes me cringe to see anyone quote the crapquirer in the forumz...it just cries guilt by association, but Im glad you put this one up....its serves as both a reminder and proof that Charlie Dmerjian knows squat and the Inquirer is about as accurate as a blind sniper, even though Reynod still thinks they have a clue.

The Wall Street Jounal Online: Dell Pares Back Sales Of AMD-Based PCs

Dell is indeed scaling back online sales of AMD powered systems, but it is NOT 'unceremoniously dumping AMD from it's web site' as Charlie claims. Good thing Charlie didnt make any bets on this one or he'd be wearing the bunny suit in public again.

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

Reverse hyperthreading.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Reverse hyperthreading.

Real quick but since I am not too into AMDs chips what the hell was reverse HT supposed to do? If HT allows 1 CPU to run 2 threads does this mean AMDs would have allowed 1 CPU to run half a thread? Would have sounded stupid if it was meant to speed things up.

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

The Inquirer reported that K8L (now K10) would have "reverse hyperthreading" and that it would "pwn all spIntel n00bs!!1!". Baron subsequently posted the article here to demonstrate Intel's impending doom and BK.

K10 does not have a "reverse hyperthreading" feature. The feature supposedly was to take a single threaded process and be able to run it on several cores simultaneously.

Real quick but since I am not too into AMDs chips what the hell was reverse HT supposed to do? If HT allows 1 CPU to run 2 threads does this mean AMDs would have allowed 1 CPU to run half a thread? Would have sounded stupid if it was meant to speed things up.

 

[aziraphale]

Inquirer = auto ignore.

 

[Reynod]

turpit said:

You know, normally it makes me cringe to see anyone quote the crapquirer in the forumz...it just cries guilt by association, but Im glad you put this one up....its serves as both a reminder and proof that Charlie Dmerjian knows squat and the Inquirer is about as accurate as a blind sniper, even though Reynod still thinks they have a clue.

Nasty ... just nasty ... I'll tell Charlie on you ... I will !!

I don't think that was warranted ... but then again I still read the crap you write too ... but I don't complain often ... other than the LENGTH of the posts.

I like the Inq ... it's a good read and funny ... and SHORT!!

Its just that most Americans don't understand British humour ... they take it literally ... probably because its too subtle, and refined.

Americans only seem to understand DELETED... shock and awe.

And that's ok too ... where would we be without the US porn industry ... that gave us the internet. And we all enjoy you bombing the **** out of the odd weird nation.

Plus the US has done far more for Oz than the poms have ... so I salute you ... my fine (and coarse) friends !!

Come down anytime for a swim ... bring the brood!!