> so this fluff piece was absolutely timed to blunt the impact of that.
The timing has nothing to do with AMD. Intel announced their own earnings on Thursday, and this piece didn't get written and edited in time to run on Friday so it got delayed to Monday.
If that's the case they should have released it a few days later, to avoid looking insecure. Because that's what it looks like, and I'm not the only one on the thread who sees it that way.
The timing has nothing to do with AMD. Intel announced their own earnings on Thursday, and this piece didn't get written and edited in time to run on Friday so it got delayed to Monday.