DELL to use AMD processors:
by: kurtep 05/16/01 10:14 pm EDT
Msg: 235544 of 235544
AMD, Dell Dealing On
Mobile Chips
(05/16/01, 8:12 p.m. ET) By Edward F. Moltzen,
CRN
Advanced Micro Devices has cut a
deal with Dell Computer
Corp.—the last major PC vendor
not using its processors—to use its
new mobile chips in laptops,
according to a financial analyst.
Eric Ross, who covers AMD
(stock: AMD) for Thomas
WeiselPartners, San Francisco,
said the deal is on track to be
announced next month.
Such a deal would be significant
for AMD, as Dell (stock: DELL)
had been the last major PC maker
to have an exclusive OEM
agreement with chip giant Intel
Corp. (stock: INTC).
In fact, barely a week ago, AMD
chairman Jerry Sanders told
analysts at a Merrill Lynch
conference in New York that he
still thought it was unlikely that
Dell would ever use AMD chips.
But Ross says the two companies
now have an agreement. |
