Dell to use AMD chips?

Dell is planning to use chips made b Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), it was announced. Dell was previously using Intel ships but now plans to use AMD in a bid to improve its sales.

Dell said that by the end of the year, it would start using an A.M.D. Opteron chip in one of its high-end servers with multiple processors. "It's a fairly small category," Kevin B. Rollins, chief executive of Dell, said on a conference call with analysts.

Dell, the world's largest seller of personal computers, had previously said growth suffered in the quarter as it cut prices to gain market share and spent more on improving its customer service. "The competitive environment has been more intense than we had planned for or understood," Mr. Rollins said.