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
