Opteron Madness forces Dell to market IBM servers

The Register says “Opteron Madness forces Dell to market IBM servers” .. it has come to this !
During a Dell-hosted conference call this week with reporters, Kirk Skaugen, Intel’s general manager of servers, started detailing new four-way systems based on Intel’s Paxville MP chip. Dell needed this chip bad, as its main competitors have had access to a four-way capable Opteron chip from AMD since April.