Hardware sites fail to notice Intel Grantsdale defects

We reported that at the time, and you can read it on our site.

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But now many hardware websites are rushing to report there's a problem with the Grantsdale chipset now Intel's recalled it. So what gives? How come they didn't notice that when they were reviewing it?

The fact that Intel is a multi billion dollar corporation with advertising clout non pareil can surely have nothing to do with the fact that experienced hardware reviewers didn't notice the defect?

Or perhaps the hardware sites got especially good Grantsdale non-defective stuff, and that's why Intel got such a good write up? It's a fact that chip manufacturers give special kit to "special" hardware sites.

We think we should be told, but we don't expect to be.

We note that sudhian.com gave Grantsdale a particularly hard time, so it gets a lot of brownie points for that. A recent article noted that Intel delayed practically everything, because practically nothing was available.

Perhaps the hardware sites that accepted everything Intel said should just talk to distributors and dealers who could have told them all that stuff already.

Maybe they could have applied something called critical judgement, rather than swallowing the Intel shilling.

Or is that a piece of journalism too far? µ