Intel answers AMD's dual-core chip challenge with French joke
Otellini's foot in mouth disease  Evaluating the cost of a DDoS
attack   AMD pumped a few major US newspapers with ads, begging
Intel to accept the dual-core challenge. The competition would
see AMD put its best performing dual-core Opteron up against a
comparable Xeon processor from Intel. A neutral, third-party
would conduct a number of benchmark tests, measuring both
performance and power consumption, according to the always
gracious AMD.  Will Intel accept the challenge?  "I saw the ad
this morning over my coffee," said Intel's CEO Paul Otellini,
during a question and answer session here at the Intel Developer
Forum conference. "I have always thought that companies and
products are best judged in the marketplace, and I will leave it
at that."  By Otellini's own metrics, AMD has already won the
duel. Two years ago the little chipmaker didn't have a single,
major server maker on its side. Now it has IBM, HP and Sun
Microsystems all shipping flee