Intel Corp (INTC)

[jhalada]

Tenchu,

Only AMD processors? How about my Northwood? How about single-core Prescott?

I am presuming they are innocent, because it is within a realm of possibilities that a multitreaded application may need more than one processing cores to achieve certain level of performance. I would agree that it is dumb to hardwire this in the EXE. So innocent and dumb.

It isn't AGAINST AMD's processors per se

How can you possibly say that, after the code has been published?

But even if it wasn't, it's not going to stop AMD from wanting in on every deal that Intel makes with its business partners.

Sure, every exclusive deal that Intel strike, that specifically excludes AMD processors is illegal. If the test is on the merit of the processor, it can be legal, if it is a test for "GenuineIntel", it is illegal.

Joe