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Chip Maker Takes Issue With a Test for Speed

Date: August 27, 2002
Author: John Markoff
QUOTE: ...Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 maker of microprocessor chips, accused an industry consortium of altering a standard performance test to favor A.M.D.'s chief rival, the Intel Corporation.

ABSTRACT: How objective tests are is not just an issue in educating children. Long-time Silicon Valley chip-maker AMD charges that an industry consortium responsible for benchmarking microprocessor performance in effect rigged the test to favor the chips of its arch-rival Intel. --- D. Doernberg

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