AMD Loses QuakeCon To Intel

Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 21, 2005 @02:43PM from the kind-of-like-the-chip-market dept.

The Inquirer has a report that AMD has lost sponsorship of the QuakeCon event to Intel. From the article: "As the official CPU and title sponsor of QuakeCon 2005, Intel will be providing its Extreme Edition tournament systems and servers to host the tournament and bring your own computer (BYOC) games. As AMD news site AMDzone.com says, with such close competition between Intel and AMD when it comes to high performance gaming, this could be bad news for AMD and tip the scales in Intel's favour. Intel is clearly trying to get a leg up on the eSports front, having sponsored other big events such as Bloodline and successful gaming team 4kings, it seems that Intel wants to have its name associated with all things e-Sports. "

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Re:Why can there only be ONE sponsor? by Tanmi-Daiow · 2005-07-21 16:07 · Score: 5, Insightful

Its not that there has to be one sponsor. Its rather an image thing. AMD and Intel are competing companies. Would they really want to share the limelight with their competitor? All the companies on the NASCAR cars are NOT competing products. In fact they have little to nothing to do with each other, and often are owned by the same company. That is why both AMD and Intel can't sponsor it.

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