Not very positive results at Dell - head to AMD

Dell yesterday released its first-quarter results, which show that the Texas group's revenue rose 6 percent to more than $ 20 billion year-on-year, but its profit after tax and other deductions fell significantly, nearly 700 percent, to $ XNUMX million. dollars.

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available In addition to a hidden sentence in the statement, the company said it will begin shipping AMD Opteron-based servers at the same time as Intel Woodcrest's server-coded server processors. As memorable, Dell was, prior to yesterday’s announcement, the only one of the world’s leading brands to refrain from using AMD processor-based systems for many years, despite the tremendous success of Opteron-based solutions. Several analysts also see this as a deterioration in Dell’s business performance, as the industry is beyond a strong boom looking back over the past six months. AMD processors have played a particularly large role in the lower-end PCs and server environments, with the processor manufacturer currently having a total market share of about 20 percent.

The last "push" is said to have been given to Dell by the recently acquired Alienware, as the vast majority of high-end gaming machines, which are extremely expensive and generate considerable extra profit, are based on AMD chips, but many believe that Dell's move is due to the ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Intel. is considered the key moment.