Sunday, February 26th 2017
Intel Plays Dirty Over Ryzen, Attempts to Manipulate Ryzen Reviews?
Intel is rattled with AMD Ryzen. Its 10-year old Nehalem CPU architecture that has been shrunk and incrementally updated over the years, is finally coming across as dated in the wake of AMD's "Zen" architecture. What to do when a competitor with 1/50th your R&D budget threatens to wreck your next annual appraisal? Play dirty and arm-twist the media of course! And playing dirty Intel is, according to a TweakTown report.
Apparently, Intel has scrambled its PR department to call in favors with the press in return for "guidelines" on how to review AMD Ryzen. Intel's PR emails allegedly ask reviewers to "call us before you write." The guidelines are worded more to make it sound like Intel wants its chips to be reviewed "fairly" against Ryzen, but the underlying objective is clear.
Source:
TweakTown
Apparently, Intel has scrambled its PR department to call in favors with the press in return for "guidelines" on how to review AMD Ryzen. Intel's PR emails allegedly ask reviewers to "call us before you write." The guidelines are worded more to make it sound like Intel wants its chips to be reviewed "fairly" against Ryzen, but the underlying objective is clear.
72 Comments on Intel Plays Dirty Over Ryzen, Attempts to Manipulate Ryzen Reviews?
I mean, something like that is easy to interpret in the wrong way and will set people off and be a press nightmare. Regardless of what they mean it can be interpreted so many ways that its not something I would send.
Nothing new here. This passed election has already shown how important media control is. With intel's size, i would be surprised if they are doing nothing.
It is never truly fair play and it will never be. The only thing we consumers can do is educate ourselves to be independent critical thinkers.
CD lost credibility a long time ago. We'd need proof from a review site of this.
The time between now & when Intel can finally bring a competitor to Ryzen is crucial to AMD, whatever views you or anyone else has on CD, I'd still take the safe(r) option & not trust a greedy corporation, so in this case it'd be wiser to take the lesser of the two purported evils.
e.g. jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/intel-and-the-x86-architecture-a-legal-perspective
I have seen that AMD has also been releasing solid driver updates for their graphics cards these past year or so, I will definitely switch back to them if they keep this up.
Actually I am more surprised that they are not that aggressive enough at this point, meaning that AMD's CPU is not a threat yet to mighty iNTEL...
Remember the Athlon days? ;)
You dont need a good fast product to make money, Just really good PR, advertising
this is not evet close to dirty. no "AMD cpu exploded" "AMD cpu getting heated" reviews yet..
Classic Intel.
Intel did counter a few years later with the Core I. But before that it was a lot of out Ia64 Itanium is going to be the way of the future etc...
Sad part is intel got DEC's IP for the alpha etc and did nothing really good with it... They only wanted it so no one else could have it.
Move along people.