Where should one go now to get gory details in layman terms of new CPU:s?
Ian is my favourite CPU journalist. That insistence on reminding everyone, all the time, that he has a doctorate is seriously awkward, though.
Ian is my favourite CPU journalist. That insistence on reminding everyone, all the time, that he has a doctorate is seriously awkward, though.
He didn't even use it until fairly recently. In the past 3-4 years? I think he had his doctorate even before he joined Anandtech. He only started using it because people were asking him why he didn't put his Dr. in his title.
And it means a lot in different context. Basically it could be used as the biggest middle finger to marketing and PR department to STFU and get a proper engineer to talk to me. Especially in the context of foundry where his research was on Electrochemistry.
For some reason people equate this to me shoving it down their throats. There was a big reddit thread about it recently.
I don't know about "strong opinions in both directions" (I don't think I've ever met someone who felt strongly that an academic doctorate title should never be mentioned?) but there are certainly some people who are serious about "ring-knocking" and will get super offended if you don't say it, and given the 'do whatever' instruction, people may be defaulting to putting it in, just in case. Perhaps, again, not even out of fear you'll jump on them, as much as someone else might.
In other words, it might not be you so much as the other assholes.
Your actual person I of course know nothing about and pass neither judgement nor praise for. That is none of my business!
LOVE that site..(and it’s forums, and Patrick)
Not 100% the same topics, but still informative.