Intel's spin machine is getting desperate

You cannot be Cyrus
By Sylvie Barak Monday, 20 April 2009

IT SEEMS DESPERATE Intel will stop at nothing to grab some spotlight and try to make its new Nehalem chips sound sexy, even if that means invoking hapless celebrities who likely wouldn't know one if it jumped up and bit them on the backside. "Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Susan Boyle would recommend the Xeon 5500 servers for Economic Stimulus" proclaims the headline of a shameless search engine courting Intel Blog. Looking to score some SEO brownie points in the most tasteless, name-dropping fashion, Intel's Shannon Poulin goes on to say: "While I don't have direct quotes of support from Brit, Miley, Susan or any country presidents who have signed economic stimulus into law I am pretty confident that if they were ever actually considering purchasing a server or workstation they would come to the conclusion that the new Xeon 5500 platforms would be their best choice." Yeah...right...

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