AMD Snubbed by OEM

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The "darling of the technology press" AMD Athlon CPU is having problems getting support from OEMs like Dell and Gateway. It looks like the manufacturers are skeptical about AMD's ability to supply the # of chips that they would require. As long as we can still get them though  to crank out those Quake3 framerates who cares if Grandma can't get one in her Dell eh? Here is a bit from the ZDNet article:

Steve Duignan, UK product manager for Dell's Dimension range -- "To be honest, we did evaluate the Athlon during pre-testing, as we always have done with previous AMD chips, but the big problem is the company's ability to supply," says Duignan. "AMD hasn't got a particularly good track record in its ability to ship to order and that's the kicker. We're not alone in this -- look at Gateway." ...

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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    August 27, 1999 2:23 PM

    Intel is behind this. I\'d bet my computer on it...

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