Hector said a lot of thing and one that caught our eyes is certainly the fact that AMD expects a huge increase in orders from Dell. Dell is the number two OEM player just after Voodoo PC powered HP.
But Dell and its Alienware are just way cooler when it comes
to games as HP doesn’t understand a thing about it. Maybe Rahul the most famous
blogger after Roy Taylor from Nvidia will make them.
Anyhow when a moderator asked Hector the mighty king of AMD
about the company's market share the big boss replied that Dell plans to
significantly ramps up the orders of AMD CPUs. This means that you can expect
significantly more Dell powered machine powered with AMD. This should take
place in the months to come.
I am sure that many of these machines will be powered with
ATI as if you buy a bundle you get it cheaper and Rick Hegberg a new VP of
sales will make sure you are treated well. Rick use to be a sales VP of ATI and now he
does the same at AMD, just in a bigger league.
So AMD is not in that much of a trouble after all as with
Barcelona and a lot of orders from Dell the company should be fine. I can
imagine that they will sell loads RV630 and RV610 cards to the OEM's as well
and R690 chipset will be a popular as well.
AMD also expects that the Channel market has to grow this
year and distribution needs to get on track. The company estimate that this
will happen very soon.