Otellini said DELL AMD core is extremely disappointing but not surprising

According to foreign media reports, after years of loyal ally DELL announced Thursday by the AMD Opteron processor in its high-end server products, Intel CEO Otellini reaction. In a memo sent to Intel employees on Friday, he said he was "extremely disappointed" by DELL". At the same time, Otellini also said that DELL to Intel in the multi server products sounded the alarm.

Otellini said in the memo: "although this is a very disappointing announcement of DELL, it is not entirely unexpected. We live in a highly competitive industry, we must strive to win every customer."

DELL announced that it will use the Opteron product in its high-end four way servers, which makes some analysts have criticized Intel's product roadmap loopholes. In this regard, Otellini said: of course, multi server is a challenge for us. On the one hand, I am very confident about the next generation of Core micro architecture, but also believe that our roadmap can launch DELL and their customers need products. On the other hand, the news also sounded the alarm for us, Intel needs to improve the competitiveness of the multi server (chip). It shows that we can't take anything for granted. We must try to win every day."

On Friday, a spokesman for DELL, said the next few days, DELL will disclose more details about the procurement AMD products, including what the server using DELL Opteron which type, as well as the Opteron dual core processor.

Over the past 22 years, DELL and Intel have formed a solid and exclusive alliance. When HP, IBM and Sun and other companies have turned to AMD excellent server processor, DELL is still unmoved. Over the past few years, DELL is facing pressure from customers and Wall Street, while the industry has also been rumored DELL is about to use AMD microprocessor.