Your biasing your decisions off of ethical reasons? I though this was a PC enthusiast forum??? BTW AMD has more than likely had their fair share of problems ethically as well.
Fanboy's talk, Perfomance walks.
Find me an article on AMD. Outside of Intel suing AMD over the use of MMX in naming one of their processors back in the 90's I have yet to find a single thing.
"MMX is officially a meaningless initialism trademarked by Intel[citation needed]; unofficially, the initials have been variously explained as standing for MultiMedia eXtension, Multiple Math eXtension, or Matrix Math eXtension.
AMD, during one of its numerous court battles with Intel, produced marketing material from Intel indicating that MMX stood for "Matrix Math Extensions". Since an initialism cannot be trademarked, this was an attempt to invalidate Intel's trademark.[3] In 1997, Intel filed suit against AMD and Cyrix Corp. for misuse of its trademark MMX. AMD and Intel settled, with AMD acknowledging MMX as a trademark owned by Intel, and with Intel granting AMD rights to use the MMX trademark as a technology name, but not a processor name" -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMX_(instruction_set)
And you're saying an individual should throw away moral convictions and choices for pure performer when either processor will do what one needs, and while one is slower by 20%, it also costs 50% less. While I may be an enthusiast, if I have a more ethical choice I will make that choice. If a third manufacturer of x86 had something that could compete with AMD and Intel in gaming, then I would consider them were they ethical. If they had a clean slate I would probably buy only from them until they broke the law.
Saying that ethics should have no say in what a person buys is why the USA's economy sucks right now and most manufacturing is done in China, where laborers are in near-slave labor states and child labor is common.
Do you have a problem with people buying ethically and explaining to others the ethical side of purchase choice? In the end it is up to the OP, but I personally buy AMD on an ethical basis. If you have a problem with that, then I'm sorry you don't value morality, but I do.