[July,8] DreamWorks Teams with Intel to Go 3D

[Aurion]

(Reuters) - Animated-movie studio DreamWorks Animation SKG has chosen chipmaker Intel Corp over previous supplier Advanced Micro Devices to supply chips and other technology for its big computer-animation operations, The Wall Street Journal said.

The deal is expected to replace the studio's computing hardware, including 1,500 Hewlett-Packard Co server systems and 1,000 workstations that use AMD microprocessors, with new HP systems that use Intel chips, the paper said.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

AMD, which has heavily courted tech-savvy animation houses as customers, had announced a three-year pact with the studio in April 2005, the paper said.

The shift comes as DreamWorks plans the release of 3-D films in the hope of pushing up flat U.S. movie attendance.

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PC World - DreamWorks Teams with Intel to Go 3D

[zatoicchi]

good news for intel bad news for amd.the partnership should be a good one at that. Dreamworks over the years have produce great animation movies and intel have made great progress with their duo and quad core cpu

[anon]

bad news for amd.

that's right, people will start saying: "if such a big company chose intel from the two it must be because of something".

let's see how amd manages to counter this...

[Aurion]

but guys AMD is already on Fire,if im not wrong & having a bad memory,AMD was always called (best Gamers Choice regarding processors) that would do it for Intel now I guess,more harsh competition in the market lately