Dell to ship chip-based products to India soon
Dell Inc., the $57 billion leading IT products major, would begin shipping its servers and desktops with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors to India from the fourth quarter of this year, a top company official said here Friday.
Though Intel processors are important to us, we give what our customers want. Of late, there has been a growing demand for our products with AMD processors. We have already started selling them in the US.
As part of our global marketing strategy, we will start shipping our servers and desktops with AMD processors to the subcontinent from Q4 of this year, Dell India vice-president Rajan Anandan told reporters here.
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