...An AMD spokesman today confirmed that the Sunnyvale, Calif., chipmaker examined the SysMark 2002 benchmark and concluded that tests had been dropped that favored AMD's Athlon XP processors. "We definitely believe SysMark 2002 is heavily biased toward Intel," the spokesman charged. SysMark 2002 was developed by an industry consortium, BAPCo, Santa Clara, Calif., which includes Adaptec, Amdahl, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and NEC among its members. AMD joined BAPCo in July with the avowed goal of eliminating in the draft of the SysMark 2003 benchmark the perceived unfair tests, the company spokesman said.... Read on at EBNS.Com