● 06.06.22

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●● Phoronix Turned 18 This Past Weekend, Asked Readers for Money, and This Monday It Shows Off Hugely Expensive AMD ‘Gifts’ (Again)

Posted in Deception, Hardware, Marketing at 6:39 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Recent: Peak AMD

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Image: amd-gifts-articlePhoronix is an adult now, but its integrity was sadly lost at the start of this year

Image: amd-giftsThe full photograph (each of these processors can cost as much as a car and there are many tiers of these inside the ‘crate’)

Summary: Phoronix became a marketing site. These gifts compromise the integrity and editorial direction [1, 2], even if the FTC is unlikely to punish companies for meddling like this (Michael’s excuse for this, when I asked him about it, was that Windows sites do the same); receiving a unit or at most two for benchmarks is understandable, but this has crossed the line (bribe territories, as I explained in length earlier this year.

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