.....WOW, talk about dishonesty in advertising. From a guy with an Abit NF8 and an X800 XT, I can comment that the demo can barely be run on a similar setup at ANY settings.
I think eon is correct in that AMD's brief reign at the top had a lot to do with Intel's complacency/laziness, but they still have a lot of good engineers over there. Especially now that they've brought in personnel from ATI too. Last time I checked their shares were getting close to book value...