Volgens geruchten op de message boards van Yahoo! Finance is IBM van plan om binnenkort over te gaan op de toepassing van AMD processors in hun x86 server systemen. Het nieuws zou afkomstig zijn van een persoon die werkzaam is voor IBM. Hoewel dit gerucht uiteraard met een korreltje zout genomen dient te worden, is de mogelijkheid dat IBM op korte termijn AMD servers introduceert zeker niet onwaarschijnlijk nu de 760MP chipset op komst is en AMD op server gebied samenwerkt met gerenomeerde fabrikanten zoals Tyan en Compaq. Meer hierover heb je reeds kunnen lezen in de column van deze week:
I returned from Germany last night and as luck would have it, I struck up a conversation with an IBM recruiter. A point of interest especially after the news today that Dell is missing expected earnings, he was in Austin to hire Dell employees. The point of this posting is that he receives constant company updates and if what he said is true and I stress true, IBM is going to use AMD chips for their new server. Now the ironic part, he is recruiting from the server division of Dell.
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I returned from Germany last night and as luck
 would have it, I struck up a conversation with an
 IBM recruiter. A point of interest especially after
 the news today that Dell is missing expected
 earnings, he was in Austin to hire Dell
 employees. The point of this posting is that he
 receives constant company updates and if what
 he said is true and I stress true, IBM is going to
 use AMD chips for their new server. Now the
 ironic part, he is recruiting from the server
 division of Dell.