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Walking a fine line here:

I'm not saying it's okay for manufacturers to present misleading data like this—they really shouldn't—but, this has basically been standard practice since the beginning of time, hasn't it? Journalists shouldn't be taking a competitor's claims at face value, and I expect the vast majority are smart enough to know this.

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I'd like to see Intel make a better product and sell it based on its own merits rather than attacking the accomplishments of their competitors. Smear pieces like this smack of desperation and the lack of a competitive product, or the strategy to create one.

A great product would sell itself.

>I'd like to see Intel make a better product and sell it based on its own merits rather than attacking the accomplishments of their competitors.

How do you market a "better" product without comparing it to the rest?

Accurately represent the product, including its strengths and weaknesses compared to the competition, which is also accurately represented. Alternatively, just compare against your own product portfolio, and leave the benchmarking against the competition to impartial third parties.

So what are you saying? Did you mean to say the tone of the article should reflect that it's totally ok that intel obscure the truth with dishonest representations? Or what that meant more as a kudos to extreme tech for doing what apparently is required, dissecting the lies of chip manufacturers? Or something else entirely?

Certain companies do this way more than others, and we should absolutely be calling them out on it.

AMD has consistently downplayed their performance gains in their press releases for the Zen architecture.

Stop playing devil's advocate, it doesn't add to the discussion.

This was a very smart cold blooded strategy. They didn't need to do anything at this point because within a few days after the launch there were plenty of reviews to confirm they had the best high-end CPUs. They knew they were winning.

Yes, it was a smart pr move. It wasn't FUD, however, which is the classic Intel/Microsoft strategy.

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