Wednesday, March 20th 2019
Kyle Bennett of HardOCP Joins Intel as Director of Enthusiast Engagement
Kyle Bennett, owner of tech publication HardOCP that ruled the web for over two decades, has joined Intel in the position of Director of Enthusiast Engagement. Following his departure, HardOCP will "mothballed," in that it will not generate new content, its IP and existing content will be owned by Bennett. HardForum.com, on the other hand, will be sold to a company Bennett is familiar with, demonetized, and run by volunteers and funded by Patreons. At Intel, Bennett will work under Technology Leadership Marketing, and will lead the company's efforts to "reconnect with the top of the high-performance consumer pyramid which contains hardware enthusiasts, overclockers, gamers, and content creators."
Kyle Benett is among a handful superstar tech journalists Intel soaked up in recent times as Raja Koduri and Chris Hook build Intel's Infinity Gauntlet with them. These include Ryan Shrout from PC Perspective, and Damien Triolet from Hardware.fr (albeit via AMD). Anand Lal Shimpi probably was one of the first and most prominent tech press leaders who left his publication for the industry. AMD's arsenal includes Scott Wasson from The TechReport and the famous overclocker Sammi Maekinen. Lars Weinand from RivaStation works for NVIDIA (also via AMD). Kyle Bennett is famous for a mountain of work in the DIY PC sphere, but in recent times is most recently credited for exposing and leading an awareness campaign against NVIDIA's poorly conceived GeForce Partner Program (GPP). We wish Kyle Bennett all the very best in his new endeavor and pray that he doesn't allow DIY PC and overclocking to become as expensive a hobby as fast cars (which unfortunately is the direction in which it's headed).
Personal note from W1zzard: In some ways you have to thank Kyle for TechPowerUp, too. Shortly after getting my feet wet with enthusiast tech, developing a shader unlock on Radeon 9500 non-Pro (around 2002), I became moderator of the HardOCP graphics card subforum. This made me embrace hardware even more, and I found two other enthusiasts who I teamed up with to start "OCFaq", a "Tech Questions and Answers" kind of project, which quickly turned into a more complex site. The other two guys lost interest at some point, so it was just me pushing out content, while all the decisions still had to be made by our trio, which slowed down things a lot. In the end I decided to roll my own and founded TechPowerUp - the very site you are browsing now.
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Kyle Benett is among a handful superstar tech journalists Intel soaked up in recent times as Raja Koduri and Chris Hook build Intel's Infinity Gauntlet with them. These include Ryan Shrout from PC Perspective, and Damien Triolet from Hardware.fr (albeit via AMD). Anand Lal Shimpi probably was one of the first and most prominent tech press leaders who left his publication for the industry. AMD's arsenal includes Scott Wasson from The TechReport and the famous overclocker Sammi Maekinen. Lars Weinand from RivaStation works for NVIDIA (also via AMD). Kyle Bennett is famous for a mountain of work in the DIY PC sphere, but in recent times is most recently credited for exposing and leading an awareness campaign against NVIDIA's poorly conceived GeForce Partner Program (GPP). We wish Kyle Bennett all the very best in his new endeavor and pray that he doesn't allow DIY PC and overclocking to become as expensive a hobby as fast cars (which unfortunately is the direction in which it's headed).
64 Comments on Kyle Bennett of HardOCP Joins Intel as Director of Enthusiast Engagement
Kyle , the """:respect:hero of GPP""" , the """:respect:PROTECTOR of customer's choices""""( hardforum.com/threads/geforce-partner-program-impacts-consumer-choice.1955963/page-18#post-1043529491 ) , from now on he will be protecting my ""customer choices"" , …. by working/paid from a competitive towards nVidia company;). (*and a company with a great history as well :
This tells you how most companies aren't much more than a bunch of money-counters, paper exchangers, and logos, most of the work behind products is achieved by cheap-shots, no skill, it's cheating, and business culture has no concept of morals/credibility and acquirement is the name of the game, the industry always uses cheats.
Acquirement = aimbot
Corporate espionage = wallhack
PR Spam = noobtubes
PR Damage Control = teleportNo you didn't, all you did was paid someone off to work under your name.
The name/logo is therefore meaningless, if the people behind it can hop freely around at any time. Same thing with sports teams, they're all meaningless if any team can buy any player at any time.Well DDDDD, a bunch of Raja Kuduris have left, no wonder. That's not the same "they" anymore, as soon as one person changes in a team it's NOT the same team anymore.
I never begrudge someone going to make more money and provide more financial security to family and/or future. I’m glad they can find companies to pay them more. There are always companies that pay more for the best. I’m glad there are. Without incentive, there is no advancement of anything in the world.
So , considering his past , heroic stance towards GPP , i'm wondering if mr.Bennett would like to make a verdict about the "legality" or not about this new issue:confused: that has risen :
""AMD Fires Back at China Chip Accusations in Strongly Worded Statement"" ( www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-china-joint-venture-rebuttal,39766.html ) , since , IF this Wall Street Journal article is accurate , then the U.S. consumer choices might also become severely impacted once more:p besides mr.Bennett's heroic efforts in the past to prevent that from happening:respect: !!.
So, just like he did during GPP, where he neglected the "traditional" courts of law and transformed the [H]-forum into a "Court of Law" itself , with mr.Bennett assuming the role of a high-judge, making verdicts about what is legal / illegal and informing us that ""his lawyers are ready"" as long as several others flammable-statements, i'm curious to see whether or not mr.Bennett will assume the role of the high-judge for once more , since the consumer choices might be endangered once again:fear: !!!!
P.S. And in order to prevent people say : """they didn't make any legal move because they are all afraid of nVidia""" , let me remind you that about a month ago , a company(*Xperi) far smaller than these multibillion giants , has filled a lawsuit against nVidia , and also against Samsung in the past , for a patent-matter !! (* so , please no-one to state an argument such as that) : GamersNexus video :