AMD's 7nm APUs will reportedly be ready in late 2019

[WYP]

Should we expect a CES 2020 launch?



Read more about AMD's rumoured 7nm APU plans.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I can't believe you really made an article on this.

They call this an exclusive article and DONT EVEN GIVE A SOURCE OF INFORMATION.

C'mon you are way better than this. Literally anybody can make an article and say "exclusive! My contact from this company xxx told me this".

Exclusive articles are always given a source.

 

[hmmblah]

Well, he says it's based on a rumor more than once in the article. I'm failing to see the problem here.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Considering Marks source of information calls this "exclusive information" yet fails to have a source, it's clickbait. And Mark fell for it on top of making an article about it from a known unreliable website.

There's plenty wrong with that. Just means he's also click baiting despite saying it's rumours. I'm not even sure how it was confusing. Plus he said the word rumour once.

He reported on something that was "exclusive information" yet that source had no source. Then he proceeded to say it was a rumour. Meaning he knew full well that it was a trash article yet commented on it anyway and made clickbait. That's my issue.

 

[WYP]

Considering Marks source of information calls this "exclusive information" yet fails to have a source, it's clickbait. And Mark fell for it on top of making an article about it from a known unreliable website.

There's plenty wrong with that. Just means he's also click baiting despite saying it's rumours. I'm not even sure how it was confusing. Plus he said the word rumour once.

He reported on something that was "exclusive information" yet that source had no source. Then he proceeded to say it was a rumour. Meaning he knew full well that it was a trash article yet commented on it anyway and made clickbait. That's my issue.

All I am going to say is that WCCFTECH was right about the Radeon VII well in advance. They were also right about Mike Rayfield, the former head or RTG, leaving AMD in advance.

As much as I can agree that WCCFTECH has a history of unreliability, they have gotten a lot of recent information correct, especially with regards to AMD.

Regardless of how good the source of a rumour appears to be, my policy is to call it a rumour. Was this rumour worth commenting on? I think so, Usman Pirzada, Wccftech's writer, has gotten things right in the past and at this time in AMD's journey I believe that it is worthwhile that we discuss their future product portfolio.

 

[NeverBackDown]

You can have your policy. The fact is out of all the media sites (big ones being the most relevant) only this one and one other(which I've never even heard of) reported on this "exclusive" report. Just goes to show the standard the original content did not meet if many sites didn't even bother.

I also have an issue with your statement of "regardless of how good the source of information appears to be"
That could be interpreted as the article is obviously bad but if it's clickbait enough it's worth doing and I'll just call it a rumour to cover my butt. That shouldn't be the standard.


I'm not trying to be rude but I just don't like this content and I feel like the standard should be higher as it always has.

 

[WYP]

You can have your policy. The fact is out of all the media sites (big ones being the most relevant) only this one and one other(which I've never even heard of) reported on this "exclusive" report. Just goes to show the standard the original content did not meet if many sites didn't even bother.

I also have an issue with your statement of "regardless of how good the source of information appears to be"
That could be interpreted as the article is obviously bad but if it's clickbait enough it's worth doing and I'll just call it a rumour to cover my butt. That shouldn't be the standard.


I'm not trying to be rude but I just don't like this content and I feel like the standard should be higher as it always has.

I think you are reading my "Regardless of how good the source of a rumour appears to be, my policy is to call it a rumour" statement in the wrong way. I did not say that I would slap the rumour label on any old crap and call it a day.

What I meant by that statement was that, unlike many other sites, that I don't report rumours as if they are fact. You will see many places call things "confirmed" long before the facts come fully to light. Until things are confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt, they will not be referred to as absolute fact. That is what I mean.

You should know that I have written things calling many widespread rumours total BS in the past. In this case, the rumour lies totally within expectations for AMD's upcoming product launches and from a writer who clearly has sources within or surrounding AMD. (Remember my previous examples about the writer being right about Rayfield and the VII).

There are plenty of rumours that I do not comment on but in this case, the rumours lie well within expectations and I feel they are worthy of discussion.

As far as the content criteria from other sites comment go. I will note some recent examples of things I have reported on here that have not seen widespread press. Or hadn't before I reported on it. Just because news is everywhere doesn't mean its right, and just because it is in few locations doesn't mean its wrong.

- DOOM Eternal's planned Ray Tracing Support - We reported on it before most sites.

Tiago Sousa - "And looks like is finally official now - DOOM Eternal will support Ray Tracing." - Links to the OC3D Article

- Phison's plans for a 6.5GB/s PCIe 4.0 SSD controller - Still hasn't seen much reporting

PCGAMER credits us for uncovering this info

Side note, we covered this on the 28th of May, but made a new article this week because Tom couldn't believe that other sites hadn't reported on it more.

- DONTNOD partners with Epic Games to distribute Twin Mirror on PC

PC Gamer covered this three days later than us. I'd consider PCGAMER as the mainstream for PC gaming news.