The Inquirer
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- This article is about the British news website. For the Philippine newspaper, see The Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The Inquirer (sometimes shortened to L'Inq) is a British technology news website focusing on the computer and semiconductor industries. It was founded by Mike Magee after his departure from The Register.
The site is known for its early access to industry news and access to many insider sources. It has also recently started publishing information regarding cheap hardware available in the UK, USA, France and other countries.
The Inquirer's articles are written with a subjective and opinionated tone; the site can be quite colourful at times and sometimes offensive. This often leads to accusations of bias from both sides of a debate, particularly Intel versus AMD.
Like The Register, The Inquirer uses nicknames for many IT firms and persons:
- Chipzilla - Intel
- Chimpzilla - AMD
- Graphzilla - nVidia
- Fruitzilla - Apple Computer
- the Vole - Microsoft
- the Pabster - Thomas Pabst of Tom's Hardware Guide
- the boy wonder - Anand Shimpi of AnandTech
- another Plaice - The Register
- FireFerret - Firefox
- Mozzarella - Mozilla
- iAMD - Intel's 64-bit Pentium 4 cpus, also known as Pentium 4 EM64T (Extended Memory 64-bit Technology).
Another Plaice is a pun on the term used in the House of Commons to refer to the House of Lords (another place) and vice-versa.
The Inquirer also uses some terms of their own, like "marchitecture", which stands for marketing architecture, or the process of designing products and naming technologies in a way which will benefit marketing and/or sales. It also refers to the Intel Itanium processor as the Itanic.
External link
- The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/)