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What you certainly are not planning to see at AMD’s web-site is something about the products of the arch-rival Intel Corporation. However, even if such information is supposed to be absent there, you will definitely find “the truth about Intel Extreme Graphics” over here at AMD.com web-site.

Most of our readers probably know that the graphics core found in the most popular core-logic products these days is not able to provide enough power for some modern games and software that require a lot of 3D power. Hardly any of you expect Intel’s 845G/GE/GL/GV to run next-generation titles at all. Despite of this fact Intel’s mentioned core-logic sets are the most popular chipsets nowadays. The reason is that i845G-series are low-cost and are able to provide enough speed for office and business applications as well as for a lot of previous-generation games.

Summing everything up I fully understand AMD’s intention to blacken a successful product of the rival simply in order to promote its own platforms with integrated graphics capabilities, such as NVIDIA nForce2 or VIA KN400.

The thing I do not quite understand is why AMD placed this black-marketing stuff on its own web-site? Every company tries to hide such documents and show them only to specialists and if such thing leaks to the World Wide Web, companies try to find the source of the leakage, as these kinds of documents are not supposed to be shown to public and especially to rivals.

I wonder if Intel also has some information about over-heating and malfunction AMD Athlon and Duron processors as well as about stability issues with VIA core-logic on its corporate web-site?

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Discussion started: 03/25/03 09:17:13 AM
Latest comment: 03/26/03 03:17:19 AM

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that's just a kind of alternative promtion
[Posted by: jwong | Date: 03/25/03 09:17:13 AM]

2. 
this article is pure marketing bullshit. The Intel graphics works very fine, I have it since 6 months and it's even good enough for many 3D games.
What need of 12451245 frames per seconds on a game when your brain and eyes can not handle more than 50 fps?
[Posted by: dt | Date: 03/25/03 10:12:33 AM]

3. 
at least it's a caught exception instead of random reboots
[Posted by: willy | Date: 03/25/03 10:43:10 AM]

4. 
Its sad to see AMD taking the route nVidia did when they left, right and center ripped appart the Kyro2 back in the day. Bad AMD!
[Posted by: Rez403 | Date: 03/25/03 12:37:32 PM]

5. 
This kind of ad is typical of AMD. They have never been known for truth in advertising and this only further displays their lack of class as a company.
[Posted by: wynner1 | Date: 03/25/03 06:24:12 PM]

6. 
Lack of class - yes. Besides, I wonder what they mean by "Athlon XP integrated graphics solutions offer [...] True Performance [...] Investment Protection [...] Compatibility [...] " - SiS730S ? Or KM133 ? Both of which are much slower and less compatible than 815, not mentioning 845G... Or rather nForce/nForce2 ? If so, they are not mentioning driver and compatibility problem of nForce2 integrated graphics. Negative ads are the dirty kind of promotion.
[Posted by: Li | Date: 03/26/03 03:12:52 AM]

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Oh, BTW: I use both 845G (int.gr.) and nForce2, and I like working on both, so please do not accuse me of being Intel fan - just the marketing trick is way below standard.
[Posted by: Li | Date: 03/26/03 03:17:19 AM]

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