Thursday, October 25th 2018

Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective Joins Intel as Chief Performance Strategist

Ryan Shrout, lead editor of PC Perspective late Wednesday, announced his departure from the publication. He will be joining Intel as the Chief Performance Strategist, and his role will be to identify the nature of the demands from the computing industry, and draw out strategies for the various silicon divisions to create products for. Shrout takes with him experience not just as the face of PC Perspective, but also Shrout Research, a market research firm.

In his farewell post, Shrout concludes: "As for PC Perspective, I am confident it will continue doing reviews, news, and analysis of the hardware you love for as long as you, the reader, support them. As I said earlier; they have already been running the show without me for some time, and they will continue doing the excellent job that has brought PCPer.com to where it stands today."

Go get 'em Ryan!
Source: PC Perspective
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33 Comments on Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective Joins Intel as Chief Performance Strategist

#26
Patriot
I dunno, about the leaving to AMD would get less hate... Tech Report got a bit of a bad taste in my mouth when their head joined AMD. It's always awkward when one of the companies that they review hires them...

Ryan on the other hand... got his hand caught in the cookie jar for a paid intel review...
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#27
Paganstomp
Raja Koduri... Jim Keller... now Ryan. Who next I wonder?
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#28
Patriot
PaganstompRaja Koduri... Jim Keller... now Ryan. Who next I wonder?
Jim does what Jim wants... he is a merc that designs amazing things. The interview of him at Intel is very interesting. He can't say straight up bad things but...
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#29
Xzibit
PCPerspective was down 29% Y-o-Y on unique traffic.

Might have something to do with it as well
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#30
Fluffmeister
Also Intel make loads of money, so that might have something to do with it.
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#31
stimpy88
FeelinFroggySo much hate and bitterness here it is absurd. I like pcper and I listen to the podcast every week. Its funny and informative. All the hate and bitterness here is pure jealousy.

Good luck Ryan, hopefully this is a sign that Intel will finally be turning over a new leaf.
When I read a review of a product, i'm kind of counting for it to be impartial, unbiased and honest. But if you want to sheep around in life, then that's fine too.
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#32
rtwjunkie
PC Gaming Enthusiast
stimpy88When I read a review of a product, i'm kind of counting for it to be impartial, unbiased and honest. But if you want to sheep around in life, then that's fine too.
Your opinion is that because he went to Intel he was impartial. That’s all it is, opinion. Bottom line, don’t ever slam someone for taking a job that means a better life and future for them and their family.

You should be doing the same in your own life. Otherwise it really does come across as jealousy.
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#33
Redkaliber
stimpy88So right!

When you look out there for tech journalists that are actually worthy of the job title, you can pretty much count them on one hand. And even then, people like Kyle Bennett have virtually gone bankrupt after taking a stand. H-OCP is a shadow of its former self because of it being blacklisted by Intel, nVidia and others, and this is a cost that so many so-called journalists simply will not pay. Anandtech is another site that used to tell things how they were, but not any longer, basically ever since Anand left, but it started going downhill before then. They are all far to political in the way they approach reviews and news, to a point that the comments and forums there are full of people complaining about why they take so long to post reviews, and people pointing out to them that they hardly ever report on the industry itself, like the latest Intel debacle for instance, and are met with "we don't have the time", and "we don't report on minor rumours" etc... So what exactly are they doing there, if they don't feel like reporting on anything anymore?

Today most sites simply regurgitate press releases as if it was their own work, but soon, it will be ALL sites operating in this way, being nothing more than paid extensions of the tech industries marketing departments. The way the tech press is going, in another 5 years, there will simply be nobody qualified left to report on anything!

With 95% of tech sites run by nothing more than unqualified ex forum members and bloggers masquerading as journalists mostly in it for the "free" samples, the future is very bleak for the public, and for the customers of these companies alike.
Dont we just get to see benchmarks and make our judgements based on that?
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