1. "The gap in performance is going to be tighter [in the second half], but enterprise customers who already have Opterons need more than a dead heat to reconsider." Mr Seyer said he was convinced that AMD could retain a lead and "keep the performance–per–watt crown." He would not speculate on whether AMD would go on to order processors for the rest of its business, but said: "I do not know of any other server customer that started at the high end and did not go wider with the product line." The Dell–Intel exclusive relationship has lasted longer than the "Wintel" alliance with Microsoft, although Intel made its own breakthrough last year when it wooed Apple away from IBM and Freescale Power PC processors.