PC Perspective Founder Joins Intel

Ryan Shrout leaves the website PC Perspective he founded and joins chipmaker Intel. He becomes the chief performance strategist there. In the past nineteen years he was mainly part of PC Perspective as a reviewer.

As chief performance strategist, Shrout will likely be responsible for, among other things, communicating about technical changes and conveying wishes and requirements to the technicians. What exactly he will do in his new role is still unclear; on Twitter reports Shroud that he can tell more about that in a week or two.

In recent times, Shrout was less often responsible for editorial pieces on PC Perspective. In a message devoted to his departure from PC Perspective, he writes that this is partly due to his more recent work at the consultancy Shrout Research, which he also founded. He also leaves this research agency. Ken Addison has previously taken over from Shrout as PC Perspective’s primary reviewer.

Shrout explains that his choice to leave and join Intel has nothing to do with money. He calls his move a new challenge where he has the opportunity to influence a major player in the technology industry from within.

The ex-hardware reviewer founded PC Perspective in 2004. This website existed in the five years before under the names Amdmb.com and Athlonmb.com. From his role at Shrout Research, he was active as a consultant for several companies in the tech industry, including big names such as AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Microsoft and Asus. It is not the first time that a founder of a tech medium has left to work for a tech company. Several years ago, Anand Lal Shimpi from Anandtech, the site he founded, went to Apple.