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CEOs Of The Motherboard Market Talk Shop

Posted by timothy on from the fatherboard-makers-abscond dept.

k-hell writes "An interesting piece from AnandTech: 'What do you get when you gather 13 of the most influential CEOs in the motherboard market? An excellent avenue to understand where this industry is headed. Find out what the heads of the motherboard industry think about everything from AMD's Opteron to the future of the worldwide economy in our first quarterly CEO Forum.'"

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  1. Lack of Ethics displayed in this article by mattr · · Score: 1, Troll
    Interesting how AnandTech has no qualms about putting words into the mouths of their interviewees, even when they are captains of industry. Anybody try to click on the orange links embedded in the text? Don't! They all go to an advertisement for Microsoft Business Solutions.


    It is also not clear whether the replies from CEO#1 refers to the first CEO in the list at the top of the article, or if the order has purposely been scrambled to limit the fallout at a given company. When I clicked on the a link (the word "business" in CEO#2's reply, I thought I would find out what company he was from, instead it sends you to a big popup window for Microsoft.


    If there is no direct attribution and the editors play so freely with mixing advertising into what the execs are supposedly saying, how do we even know this is all true? (I presume it is true on the other hand how do follow a thread of what a given CEO is saying, and was this even conducted in English or is this a translation from Chinese?) Personally this made me take AnandTech's "first ever CEO forum" with a big fat grain of salt even before getting into the main part of the article. I'd prefer they use big ads you can't miss than to attempt subversion of the text itself.


    Well I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they have told each CEO what their number is so they can check the homepage for accuracy. But realistically this seems silly since with enough answers anybody knowledgeable ought to be able to figure out who is who, and I would be surprised if each CEO's employees are (if they heard of AnandTech) demanding to know which number he is. All this seems to contribute to the closed nature of the business which the leader explains. Usually when a company hosts a CEO Forum (like the Economist Conference I saw a couple days ago where the French CEO of Nissan Carlos Ghosn was present) you have them actually talking to each other and you can identify who is who. This cloak and dagger idiocy is a waste of the reader's time!