AMD's Project Quantum Gaming PC Contains Intel CPU

nateman1352 links to an article at Tom's Hardware which makes the interesting point that chip-maker AMD will offer Intel -- rather than AMD -- CPUs in their upcoming high-end gaming PC. (High-end for being based on integrated components, at least.) From the article: Recently, AMD showed off its plans for its Fiji based graphics products, among which was Project Quantum – a small form factor PC that packs not one, but two Fiji graphics processors. Since the announcement, KitGuru picked up on something, noticing that the system packs an Intel Core i7-4790K "Devil's Canyon" CPU. We hardly need to point out that it is rather intriguing to see AMD use its largest competitor's CPU in its own product, when AMD is a CPU maker itself.

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for a brief period of time they totally outshone intel which was still culturally crippled by the concept of
a parallel 'front end bus'

Um, that's utter crap.

AMD beat Intel when it was crippled by the concept of 'long pipelines with high clock frequencies' and 'pushing 64-bit users onto Itanium'. The early Core chips took back the crown from AMD, and they had an FSB.

'AMD rulez because no FSB' was just AMD fanboy claptrap, like 'AMD rulez because Intel put two chips in one package for a quad-core, but AMD puts four on one chip.' None of those things made any significant difference to performance in that era.