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<title>All that AMD is left with is spinning the numbers</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=585</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:25:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Adrian Kingsley-Hughes</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[AMD is so broken that all it has left in the battle against Intel is marketing spin.    What's AMD going to try to sell me next? A special secret sauce to boost Barcelona performance to that being claimed in the benchmark results? Or maybe some magic beans??I used to feel sorry for AMD.  The company pretty much came from nowhere to become a powerful force in the processor market.  A series of poor management decisions and a prolonged price war with Intel left the company battered and bruised.  But over the past 12 months I've seen AMD slip from being a company that walked its talk when it came to ethics into one using tactics that are so ... ]]>
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