AMD snags Guinness World Record for clockiest chip

In not dead yet The Register reports the worldrecord fastest chip for AMD. They clocked a prerelease eight-core AMD FX desktop processor to 8.429GHz which is a amazing speed of course. But they can not beat Intel's current line of Core i processors and their marketshare is too little and they earn too little to continue financing the R&D effort to beat Intel. Collaboration with ARM would be a far better option especially to develope energy saving chips but it is not likely to happen.