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That's what I'm thinking. DELL obviously couldn't go directly to AMD and say we want a bunch of Opterons, but we're not going to put them in complete systems. That might lead to some embarrassing questions, so I suspect a more circuitous route was devised that sort of avoided any innuendoes about why DELL would be buying Opteron parts if they really weren't up to DELL's standards and their customers really didn’t want them anyway. I imagine keeping up appearances with INTC also had something to do with it.
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Sorry, I missed your point about it being A64's Dell is selling, not opterons, but for the sake of the discussion it really isn't important. The thing is that DELL wouldn't be going to these lengths unless it was really hurting. The message DELL is sending is garbled at best, and very confusing at worst. DELL knocking AMD while at the same time selling AMD processors reeks of someone talking out of both sides of their mouth.
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