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Intel/AMD Battle Rages On

Posted by Zonk on from the fight-to-the-pain dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The battle between Intel and AMD has broken out of the cleanroom and literally into public view with AMD's public display CPU speed challenge to competitor Intel. Should the competition take place, the infamous chip makers will battle their best 2-way and 4-way configurations for the latest title as speed king." From the article: "AMD's proposed dual-core duel would be a live, public performance evaluation between server platforms based on the dual-core Opteron 800 Series or 200 Series processors and the corresponding Intel product. Should Intel accept AMD's challenge, the duel would take place at a public venue to be announced in the coming weeks, with testing conducted by a neutral, third-party testing lab. "

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  1. Public venue? by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Should Intel accept AMD's challenge, the duel would take place at a public venue to be announced in the coming weeks

    Place the chips in an unmarked bag and drop them in the trash on the corner of 2nd and 4th. We'll let you know when our neutral, third-party testing lab is finished with them and post their results.

  2. who cares? by mnemonic_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Two computers crunching numbers next to each other, big deal.

    Fistfight between executives, I'd watch.

  3. In other news... by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... global warming on the rise again.

  4. Geek Pay-per-View by jayhawk88 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe we could get a few undercard matches as well?

    Windows v. Linux, quickest from blank disk to running system
    vi v. emacs, first to edit a 10 page document
    RMS v. Bruce Perens, which person does the audience kill first

  5. 2nd and 4th? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Corner of 2nd and 4th? Whoa, there, boy! We're not in Euclidian space anymore!