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Intel has been identifying their chips with "Genuine Intel" for quite some time, that brought the term into the IT zeitgeist.
I'm not sure that "AuthenticAMD" is any better. There's probably an entire table of words like this that we should be wary of.
That said, this took me down a small rabbit hole of CPUIDs. I want one with "AMDisbetter!" Or "CyrixInstead"
And it's not even that long ago their CPUs began genuinely committing ~~seppuku!~~ ~~unalive!~~ uh.. failing