DreamWorks Animation Switches to Intel Chips

2005年から AMD のチップを使っていた Dreamworks が Intel製に乗り換える。

Some 1,000 workstations and 1,500 server units at DreamWorks Animation will make the switch to Intel chips over the next 18 months, and a team of Intel engineers will fine-tune DreamWorks' proprietary software for use on the new equipment.

将来に向けた製品力で AMD が劣っていたと言うことか。

''We've been happy with AMD up to this point,'' Batter said. ''But as we look out and look at the number of compute engines per chip, the Intel roadmap syncs more closely with our needs.''

Intel plans to use DreamWorks Animation as a test site for its future visual computing products, Knupffer said. Nehalem will be launched commercially by the end of the year, while Larrabee will launch in 2009 or 2010, he said.