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".

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