Charlie is (was?) actually very pro-Intel. Prior to this piece of excrement I would challenge anyone to find an article penned by him that was critical of Intel. I think the worst I've seen was some howling about Intel's incomprehensible CPU naming conventions -hardly a lone voice there. Considering the anti-trust suits and the massive payout to AMD you might have thought that an article or two might have been warranted, no?
My guess is that he's had a falling out with Intel (probably didn't get the company Christmas card this past holiday season) and is using this bs rant solely to garner some attention (read site traffic).
Charlie lives for the exposé and basks in his (self-promoted) image as investigative "journalist" (read blogger)- unfortunately since his big coup ( the nvidia eutectic solder underfill story) his supposed "exclusives" have turned out to largely incorrect (or just malicious FUD), or so far off base you'd think his "unnamed sources" are actually double agents! -assuming they aren't just a convenient vehicle to deflect possible law suits and criticism.
His last great piece of "investigative journalism" was in regard to the GTX 460:
The GF104/106/108 chip were never really meant to be what they are now, they are a desperate stopgap that simply won't work...The new dice are 3/4s of a GF100 for the GF104...that would put the GF104 at 210W...around 405mm^2
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So of his four "new" facts that's four from four...wrong.
(GTX 460 obviously works, GF104 essentially a new reworked GPU, 160w at stock clocks and 368mm²)
To be fair Charlie also included what was mostly known/estimated from around the net at the time ( 256-bit bus, 384/336 shader count, 32 ROP) but extensively padded out his new revelations by taking potshots at TSMC (a favourite target) and G200 / GF100 (likewise).
Not content with being monumentally off base....On the day of the GTX 460's launch, when every tech site on the internet was showing pretty favourable reviews, Charlie "co-incidentally" stacked the entire frontpage of his site with two-year-old reprinted anti-nvidia/bumpgate articles with no mention of the GTX 460 at all (see attachment)
When quizzed about this in the forum, Charlie said (posted after the thread was closed):
Short story is that the timing and release [of the reprinted articles] was coincidence.
That's some co-incidence.
I ceased to an active forum member at SA from that point.
Charlie in his defence is not solely anti-nvidia...he's also anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple, anti-OEM's and views every mainstream tech site (including TS) as a bought and paid for shill of the aforementioned companys.
In short, Google categorizes SemiAccurate as satire with good reason. There used to be many interesting and knowedgeable people on the forum there (and maybe still are), unfortunately Charlie's cult of personality and propaganda make the site all but unreadable for many.
@red1776
If the non-support of a Linux distro that was released before Sandy Bridge is disappointment of the year ( three days in!) then the rest of the year is looking very rosy.
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