Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Intel Funds AMD-bashing Report

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the marketing-does-the-dumbest-things dept.

Jim Norton writes "The Inqwell and ZDNet are reporting that the Aberdeen group, who recently published a report attacking the Athlon XP's processor rating system, was funded by Intel to produce the report. The articles also mention that AMD claims they were never contacted for information regarding this issue." From the benchmarks that various outfits have done on the new AMD chips, their model number is actually pretty conservative.

2 of 323 comments (clear)

  1. At least AMD publishes benchmarks... by Ogrez · · Score: 1, Redundant

    With every AMD processor release, they publish benchmarks, in addition to the benchmarks from toms hardware, Hardocp, anantech, and a slew of others. I was shopping one day, and noticed a set of Intel benchmarks touting the P4's. But when you looked closley.. you noticed that Intel benchmarks the pentiums AGAINST THEMSELVES... the P4's on the bar chart were rated very high. Against the pIII. It sickens me. Anyone with any tech skills knows that AMD puts out better chips, and I think this report is just intels way of trying to draw heat of them in light of AMD's new Hammerhead chip. Intel is running scared

    --


    Fire in the hands of the village idiot is no tool, but a weapon of mass destruction
  2. This makes my day... by Danse · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I just received my new Athlon 1800+ XP from UPS :) Screw Intel if they can't just put out a good product at a good price. This just makes me that much more glad I bought an Athlon.

    --
    It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer