Intel Corp (INTC)

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morrowinder

In the FTC investigation of a few years ago, AMD fans charged Intel with degrading the Intel Compiler performance when running non Intel CPUs. They were certain this was criminal activity but in the settlement the FTC gave Intel their blessings recognizing that Intel had no obligation to empower their competition. Just document that non Intel hardware may not see optimization. I had it on good authority that the real problem was that AMD would not share their errata with Intel so that Intel could avoid code sequences that might crash some AMD chips and we all know how AMD fans would have a field day with that one claiming intentional dirty tricks!