Dell founder sees gaming in PC industry future
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Dell Inc. DELL.O founder and   Chairman Michael Dell sees computer gaming becoming a $4   billion-per-year industry by 2010 as consumers hook up to   high-speed Internet services to battle monsters on-line.
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THE GADGET   PC gamers, you have a new god. Dell has overclocked the quad- core processor on its XPS 710 H2C PC to an enormous 3.2GHz, enabling you to shoot other players vital milliseconds earlier.
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Dell Inc. DELL.O, the world's  largest PC maker, could announce an expanded selection of its  consumer electronics line in the next several weeks, a retail  industry analyst said on Wednesday.
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Dell Inc., battered by battery recalls and disappointing earnings, said Wednesday that Chairman Michael Dell will return to run the company he had built into one of the world's largest makers of personal computers.
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Some of the top technology companies, including Intel, Microsoft, Dell, and Advanced Micro Devices joined forces Tuesday to form the PC Gaming Alliance, which will try to promote the PC as a gaming platform.The alliance will bring hardware makers, software companies, and game publishers under one roof to &quot;accelerate innovation, improve the gaming experience for consumers and serve as a collective source of market information and expertise on PC gaming,&quot; the alliance said in a statement.The companies will work together on challenges facing the PC gaming industry, including piracy and the establishment of hardware requirements for PC games, the alliance said. PCGA also hopes to accelerate growth of the PC gaming industry and standardize the development of gaming PCs and software by developing and promoting guidelines.The alliance comes at a time when PC video game sales are falling. PC games sales in the U.S. were $910.7 million in 2007, down from $970 million in 2006, according to research from NPD Techworld. PC game sales in 2007 dwarfed in comparison to the sale of software for video game consoles like Sony&#39;s PlayStation and Nintendo&#39;s Wii, which were $6.6 billion.Unit shipments of PC game software totaled 36.4 million in 2007, compared to video game software unit shipments of 153.9 million, according to NPD.The U.S. gaming industry already has the Entertainment Software Association, which represents vendors that publish games for both computers and consoles. About 90 percent of the $7.4 billion revenue of PC and console gaming software in 2006 belonged to ESA members, giving the association a dominant presence.Other PCGA members include Acer, Epic, Nvidia and Razer USA.The announcement comes during the Game Developers Conference, which is being held in San Francisco. During the show PCGA member Intel launched a new gaming platform formerly code-named &quot;Skulltrail.&quot; The Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform includes two quad-core microprocessors, totaling eight-processing engines, and supports graphics cards from ATI or Nvidia.
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Dell Inc. chairman Michael Dell announced a long-term partnership between his company and other hardware and software vendors to develop best practices in deploying a grid computing infrastructure.
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At a time when economists and politicians fret over the future of American manufacturing, Dell isn't just defying a global trend, it's helping to set the standard.
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Since its release in early 2003, AMD&#39;s Opteron server CPU has made great inroads almost everywhere... except with Dell. The CEO of Dell, Kevin Rollins, says that may very well be about to change, as the company
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Dell Chief Executive Michael Dell is making a habit of using the InterContinental Paris-Le Grand Hotel as a backdrop for bold pronouncements. In 1996, the European landmark is where he first told Dell directors of a plan to branch out into servers.
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Chief Executive Kevin Rollins from Dell said that the company was considering using AMD&#39;s chips for some future server products, maybe in the first half of 2005.
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Michael Dell has seen the future and it&#39;s a 128-node &quot;MegaGrid&quot; running the Linux operating system on Dell servers at Oracle&#39;s lab in Austin, Texas.
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Dell Inc., battered by battery recalls and disappointing earnings, said Wednesday that Chairman Michael Dell will return to run the company he had built into one of the world's largest makers of personal computers. Dell's appointment is effective immediately. He replaces Kevin Rollins, who also resigned as a member of the board.
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Computer maker Dell Inc. plans to hire another 500 engineers to work in its central Texas product development operations, founder and Chairman Michael Dell announced Monday.
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Dell president and chief executive officer Kevin Rollins indicated that the company is considering including Advanced Micro Devices processors in its server roster in the foreseeable future.
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Apparently Dell is too big for even Michael D. to run by himself. So the company has created the Digg-like Dell Idea Storm, where would-be CEOs can offer their 2 cents on how to run the show. At press time, more than 800 ideas had been submitted, with the most popular being: 1) preload less crapware, 2) offer more open source software, and 3) no more support calls with âBillie Jo from Bangalore,â please. The worst suggestion? Having Michael Dell deliver his PCs in person, kind of like a Dominoâs pizza. And if the PC crashes or blows up within the first 30 minutes, itâs free.
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A group of industry veterans are aiming to become the &quot;Dell of the software industry&quot; by creating a company dedicated to supporting Open Source software.
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Dell President and CEO Kevin Rollins has indicated that the company is actively considering including Advanced Micro Devices processors inside its server products in the foreseeable future.