Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

Intel is the big dog, and you know darn well they'll never allow a TPI effort to succeed, because
it would not reflect well on them.

Why would you assume that unless TPI was a crooked game slanted in AMD's favor? There
already exists an industry wide effort for accurately, reliably, and with repeatability, quantifying
CPU performance in a platform neutral and fair manner. It is called SPEC and both Intel and
AMD have been part of it for a long time. AMD has reported SPEC scores for Opteron, which
although quite good, are close to existing Intel products that have been in the market since
last year and will soon be surplanted by faster devices.