Agreed... to a point. With the right marketing tactic, and the cheaper AMD cost, a profit margin may be larger with AMD given the right positioning. If they can get away with selling an AMD product alongside an equally matched Intel product, for the same retail price, they would profit more from the AMD sell. It's an opportunity to market a cheaper product alongside a more expensive product but because the cheaper product now holds a record for being the "fastest", they can tack on a few bucks. You really don't believe that a business would take advantage of that opportunity?
They don't have to know what it is. Marketing can now literally say that they've built the fastest consumer chip and it runs at 8.429Ghz and they won't know what that means either... they don't have to though.
They heard fastest, 8 and ghz.
Sample Consumer Logic ==
Fastest: Better than sliced bread.
8: more than 2 and 3, what I usually see on computers.
Ghz: I hear that a lot, and it's a good thing, I think.
Now, you're probably both right (foothead and 01001010). There will most likely be little to no shift in stock price when concerning this record. However, I never underestimate American stupidity and other people's ability to manipulate it with a few choice words.
