Quote Originally Posted by ToTTenTranz View Post
But these interviews are so boring that I'm not sure they count as "positive promotion".

Like politics, maybe it's the interviewer's job to make sure the interviewed doesn't turn every answer into a marketing or self-promotion statement.

So it's either a very technical presentation (like the one we saw in the first post) or the interviewer must carefully ask for something very specific, so the answer won't turn into "we were the first to use GDDR5/40nm" or "we're happy with the innovation and performance of our products".


But still, the guy being interviewed could/should answer "GDDR5 allowed us to decrease the GPU bus and reduce PCB complexity while retaining the overal bandwidth" instead of "We pioneered with GDDR5 and we were the first company ever to use it, so we also innovate. And did I tell you GDDR5 was first used by us and it's great?.

This the overall problem: PR and Marketing guys are boring and repetitive.. Most of the time it's a well-shaved and happy face in a good-looking suit saying the same thing over and over -> which means they don't really know what they're talking about.
I wouldn't want that for my company..
Problem probably lies in the PR and marketing people's lack of knowledge when it comes to the technical stuff. Sure, they are probably quite well educated in the features and such but not why they were implemented and what this meant for the product. Like with GDDR5 and the smaller bus and thereby smaller die size. Or the yield problems at TSMC at 40nm and what that does to 4770 being non existent in stores (probably not something they want to say anyway).