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[Aug 19, 1999, 2:27 pm ET] - Post a Comment

AMD and Intel both making news today:

Athlon Test Results Called Into Question is a TechWeb story saying that AMD may be fudging their benchmarks: "According to FutureMark, AMD modified the 3DMark 99 MAX test by optimizing the DLL test code for its recently released Athlon. AMD's own test results demonstrated that in one of the two 3DMark tests, the 600-MHz Athlon outperformed the 600-MHz Pentium III by over 30 percent. Of the 13 test results accompanying AMD's Athlon press release, the 3DMark figures were among the highest in favor of the chip." Thank Steve.
Intel retreats from graphics chips reports CNET News.com that says: "Intel is getting out of the business of making discrete graphics chips for personal computers, according to a company spokesman, a market it entered less than 18 months ago to fanfare and dismal sales." Thanks Larry Huffman and Jacek Fedoryñski.