Dell has shunned AMD and is holding on to Intel chips for servers, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins said.

It appears that Dell used the AMD deal to get Intel to the bargaining table and squeeze some steep discounts out of the company.

The move by the largest computer maker in the world is a blow to AMD's ambition to make the Opteron a mainstream processor, but isn't the end of the line. Sun Microsystems, HP and IBM sell Opteron based servers and workstations.

24 Feb 2005