AT shouldn't get worse treatment than any other review site. If all the others can post detailed benchmarks or cover an event and only AT has consistent issues and bad luck at some point a pattern emerges.

I get that I can also be biased. But bias should be like noise, taking all of the articles together should average it out. In AT's case it's more like the signal rather than the noise. What really capped it off for me was not covering a public event that every other website covered, like the 2017 Threadripper launch. The signal was that they are even willing to ignore one of the most interesting launches in years to post articles about trivial motherboard announcements. I would never mind if Intel launched some awesome new CPU.

Then the confirmation came the following year, coincidentally also during a Threadripper event when they wrote multiple articles touting Intel's new 5GHz 28 core CPU. They missed the fact that it was a massive overclock chilled by an (admittedly hidden) 1HP chiller and their experience raised no red flags where even the comments did. But worse, when the bubble burst unlike every other publication AT's response was an anemic piece excusing Intel and with the literal conclusion that "the 28-core announcement was not ideally communicated".

I understand Intel's shenanigans to try to steal some of the attention that TR is getting. But as a journalist being played like that should trigger a more visible reaction. Consistently painting them in a good light just raises suspicions for me. And while I still read their articles I no longer take them or the conclusion at face value unless another big site confirms it.

Yes I totally understand that, and you could literally count with one hand how many people are working in Anandtech.

But sometimes I just want 2 Sentence on their Frontpage. Like

1) Today is the launch of AMD Threadripper, here are the Spec. It is exciting to test ( hype ) and we intend to publish a full review within 2 weeks.

Rather than just stay silent on the issue.

2) Today there is a new Intel threat called X, as published here ( Intel Official Documentation ) and here ( Likely the Bug have its own webpage now ). We may cover it with more details in the future.

I understand they have timing and staff issues. But two sentence will show they knew of the issue / press/ release rather than staying Silent on it.

May be Anandtech wants to be a pure review site, but then it is not has a section called News Pipeline. Staying silent on anything at Intel's disadvantage makes me question if they have slight bias towards Intel.

I wouldn't see Intel bias if AT gave them the spotlight during a time when they announced/launched massively interesting products (like Zen based CPUs were/are). I actually expect them to treat a new Intel architecture exhaustively even at the price of not having time for trivial AMD related news.

But if you read my concrete examples above and go to AT's site to confirm their legitimacy I think you will agree that this goes far beyond giving too much attention to one of them during a period of major change. They were willing to do exactly the opposite and refuse attention during a major launch to cover trivial topics for another company, they accepted being repeatedly played by the same company and never publicly held them accountable.

And this last part is arguably the most worrisome because it's no longer about one journalist's personal preference towards one company. It's their journalistic integrity. When you realize you were tricked into deceiving your readers you're expected to take a stand publicly. And at the very least learn from the experience and trust but verify. AT still enthusiastically covered paper launches that never materialized, with no "grain of salt" thrown in there. And it doesn't matter which brand they favor, only that they are not willing to take a stand after being repeatedly played for attention.

I still read them (only as secondary source) and not recommending against it. Just that the implicit trust I had when Anand was writing is off the table for me.