re:I know this has become an established Dell position - a friend who was at Dell in this period claimed that Dell's exclusively Intel product line cost them thought leadership and took them from "Invincible" to "Also Ran".
Dell's whole business model/operations was based on having single, specialized, exclusive relationships with its different component suppliers. Thats public knowledge. AMD would have to have outperformed Intel chips by a significant margin (which they did not) for it to make sense for Dell to switch to AMD in any significant degree.
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