Forbes meldt dat het van bronnen heeft gehoord dat AMD in onderhandeling is met Dell over de levering van 100.000 Spitfire processors. Hoewel het om een deal van gemiddelde grootte gaat zou het voor AMD een belangrijke doorbraak zijn wanneer Dell afstapt van zijn huidige beleid om uitsluitend systemen met Intel processors te leveren:
A source familiar with the companies says that Dell (nasdaq: DELL), the number one PC maker in the U.S., is negotiating to purchase 100,000 chips from AMD (nyse: AMD) for use in low-cost desktop computers. The chips, code-named Spitfire, are expected to hit the market this summer.[...] Even if Dell is close to coming on board, AMD Chief Executive Jerry Sanders won’t be happy until the supply agreement is in writing. That’s because Intel could swoop in with a better financial deal for Dell, freezing out AMD yet again. The memory of that sort of maneuvering is still fresh in the mind of AMD officials, who believe that Intel was able to get Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT) to choose its chips for the new X-Box video game console by practically giving them away.
"I wouldn’t be surprised if that happens [with Dell]," said Gwennap. "Intel has been doing that repeatedly to keep AMD from making inroads into its business."
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