I do not see why Intel should have to buy in a shed load of competitor products just to test their own "Intel compiler's" on them. If AMD were to make their own compiler which was of equal quality then I for one would not be moaning if performance was less on my superior Intel CPU as the reality is the software is not optimised for it.
If on the other hand AMD offered to pay intel X $'s to test the compiler on their CPU's and Intel rejected this offer THEN I would see what all the fuss is about.
But for now it is just a load of hot air.
The same argument goes for those who were miffed about no FSAA in Batman AA. The reason for this was that nVidia contributed cards and code for the developers to test on. IF ATi had did the same I am sure the game would also support FSAA for them.
John