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Chip firm AMD has quietly dissed its much bigger competitor Intel by claiming that the latter's 845G/GL chipset crashes peoples' machines.
According to a competitive notice on its website, aimed at its resellers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Intel's "extreme graphics" technology "struggles and even fails" to run some popular software packages.
The firm did not say which software applications caused the crashes nor did it provide evidence for its claim, but said: "If Intel technology can't handle the needs of today's applications, how will it manage to run the applications of tomorrow?".
A page on its web site captures a screen which claimed that the display device driver "was unable to complete a drawing operation".
The Microsoft Windows notice also says that the "display driver for Intel 82845G/GL Graphics Controller seems to be responsible for the system instability".
AMD is a close partner with Nvidia and the latter feels slightly threatened by Intel's push into the graphics market, although it has no chipset to support Pentium 4 processors, as it doesn't want to pay $5 for a licence, apparently.
News source: Inquirer
