GIPNOR

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<A HREF="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=2&u=/nm/20040224/tc_nm/tech_hp_amd_dc" target="_new">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=2&u=/nm/20040224/tc_nm/tech_hp_amd_dc</A>

HP's with AMD's opteron.

<i>"We never said we'd never do it. It's just that Intel has been able to solve all of our customer needs until now," said Scott Stallard, HP general manager for enterprise storage and servers. </i>

The article also mentions that Dell is not making a move because their customers aren't interested. If Intel's new 64bit processor doesn't stack up to AMD, I could see this potentially hurting Dell (they'd have to chatch up to HP and IBM).

Customer demand will dictate what happens from here.
 

Spitfire_x86

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Athlons didn't have good chipset support in that period.

But I highly doubt Dell will use Opteron/Athlon 64

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