After a week of putting out fires of Sony’s making, Dell has lit up the faces of AMD execs by expanding its range of AMD-based machines from servers to the desktop.

The move is seen as integral to Dell’s drive for greater profitability, and a logical move in its battle with HP for PC market share.

While a Dell spokesman could not confirm plans to extend use of AMD processors “beyond the current server range”, AMD was only too happy to announce the arrival of an AMD-spawned Dimension in September.

Dell will offer AMD processor-based Dimension desktop PCs by September, AMD said in a statement.

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