"In the spirit of fair and open competition, AMD today issued a challenge to Intel to conduct a head-to-head competition of dual-core x86 server processors. AMD's proposed dual-core duel in 2005 would be a live, public performance evaluation between server platforms based on the highest-performing Dual-Core AMD Opteron(TM) 800 Series or 200 Series processors and the corresponding Intel x86 server processors that are commercially available in volume"
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Sort of a "Put up or Shut up" scenario...
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Sort of a "Put up or Shut up" scenario...