why does the 1978 intel 8088 processor have something that looks like the AMD logo stamped on it?

Question

See it here: www.abcresellers.bigstep.com/item.html?PRID=1206544

Answer 1

http://www.abcresellers.bigstep.com/item.html?PRID=1206544

THAT IS NOT A GENUINE INTEL, IT'S AN INTEL CLONE manufactured by AMD (i.e INTEL 8088 compatible) using a license granted to them by INTEL ( hence the © INTEL or copyright of INTEL , copyrighted in 1978). Sorry for shouting it.

The true 8088 INTEL LOOKS LIKE THIS
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/8088/Intel-MD8088-2-B.html

In 1982 AMD signed a contract with Intel so that AMD could become a second manufacturer of 8088 microprocessors, because IBM need to have two manufacturers of the chip, or something like that.

AMD's history is documented at wikipedia including their early attempts to clone INTEL microprocessors. check out the 1982 80286.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD

P.S. Please put http:// before your links, i could not see the text to access the page you mentioned easily, i had to extract the link by looking at the pages source code.