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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by babypuncher on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:37PM (#17830501)
I refuse to believe the entire marketing department is dense enough not to see how that would backfire.
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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by cbhl on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:41PM (#17830528)
Does it really take the entire marketing department for the story to play out this way? It just takes one marketing person to send one email to the right one lawyer in legal, right?
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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by mywittyname on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:38PM (#17830509)
Legal probably thought they could silently issue C&D letters to offending sites and bully compliance.
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Re:Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking... by dman on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:58PM (#17830665)
Looks like marketing department is running with an acting part time head - https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2018/05/...
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