14 DAY TRIAL // Who says tournaments are old fashioned? In the most authentic medieval tradition, AMD is challenging Intel to defend its honor. Don't think about horses and shattered lances, this battle will be fought with servers, processors and workstations.
Driven to despair by Intel's corporate tricks, AMD has resorted to an original marketing method and the company is challenging its rival to a public confrontation between Opteron fitted servers and their Intel counterpart.
And if you think this is a joke, you're wrong. AMD is determined to fight until the very last breath, transistor that is, and the judges will test the systems using mutually agreed-upon benchmarks.
AMD has published the announcement as an ad in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and The San Francisco Chronicle and it also has a website at this address AMD Dual Core Duel , where you can find more details.
For AMD, one thing is for sure: any method which can be used to harass the enemy goes, from lawsuits to tournaments.
We find AMD's marketing idea brilliant and all we can do is to salute its author and to propose a full-fledged IT&C tournament, where the rule is simple: "In the end, there can be only one!"
Here are some examples of confrontations: Nvidia versus ATI, Windows versus Linux, iPod versus everybody else, MS Office versus Open Office, Google versus Yahoo. By the way, what other competitors would you like to see in a server to server confrontation?
Choose your side below.