They guys never cease to amaze me. They get paid to make this false report bashing AMD's marketing scheme and now they get paid more to say that they "stand by their report". I would say it too if they paid me enough money and I had already printed the false report.
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http://www.designtechnica.com/article.php?sid=1328
The analyst from Aberdeen Group who wrote the report (mentioned here previously) alleging that AMD's new CPU naming convention for the Athlon XP chips was inaccurate/misleading has spoken up to stand by his claims.
Peter Kastner, the analyst in question (Chief Research Officer at Aberdeen Group, no less), says that "Intel, AMD and all the major chip makers are clients of ours. If that prohibits us from writing what we believe, it would prevent us from writing at all."
According to the man himself, his main gripe with AMD's marketing strategy was that although the recent rebuttal from AMD claimed that the figures were designed to allow comparisons with the old Thunderbird Athlons, their white paper made extensive comparisons to Intel's chips. Additionally, he wasn't convinced that AMD are doing enough to stop sales drones in big retail stores from throwing AMD's chip numbers at the customer without explaining that they're not clock speeds.
As he was a founding member of the Transaction Processing Council (who came up with some big whole-system benchmarks dealing with database stuff), he should know what he's talking about.
Re: Analyst stands by AMD-bashing report (Score: 1)
by Ioman on Friday, March 29 @ 17:20:04 PST
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I am glad that we are following this so closely. I think it shows that most analysts don;t have a clue what is going on in the computing world, yet they influence the market so heavily with their statements. After reading about Intel and their influence with all of this and how they influnce PC Mark 2002 (see previous news) I have no question in my mind that they WILL be without a doubt Microsoft of their market (if they aren't already). It is sad to see a company get their tentacles into everything to increase a profit.
The bottom line is that the computer market is not growing as fast as it used to and sales are slowing down. Intel tried to get into other markets (consumer electronics) that were meant to boost PC sales but they have failed. Now they are resorting to tactics to "trick" the consumer and market. This is a shame....
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The fact that these "analysts" can be bought off is just sad and what is even sadder is the fact that Intel would drop to such depths. I know this might sound like I'm bashing Intel, but I would do the same if AMD were to do it. It is just shameful and very bad business ethics.
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