AMD will ship over 20 million processors to Dell over a period of twelve months to cover the system builder’s need. This is a very important deal to AMD that has a lot of advantages, but also disadvantages and it seems we, the retail consumers, are the ones who are beign put aside. Further information has appeared that strengthens the fact that AMD is havig a hard time meeting the demand on the retail market, which seems to have to do with the great demand from Dell. But also smaller system builders are being caught in the middle of things and The Inquirer now claims that several distributors have mailed and complained that there aren’t enough dual-core processors to cover the need at PC building stores.
So it isn’t just AMD’s budget models which seems to be affected but also its Athlon series, both single and dual-core models. We’ve checked around it seems that many stores are listing AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 processors as low in stock or completely out. How AMD will fix this remains to be seen, but then again as Intel is already doing so well with its Core 2 Duo architecture, we’re not sure it would matter that much as people are selling their AMD systems for pratically nothing to get a hold of a Core 2 Duo.
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