Bits And Chips is not a huge site, we don't have important partners (due to our indipendence), and so the vists are pretty low (sigh!). However, this doesn't mean that we are a gossip site. When we write something, it's because we think that the rumor is true (Our Tweets are made for fun. The news we think are reliable are posted on this site!)
We have our sources, a lot of sources, so shit happens. We try to skrim the bad news, but sometimes it's not enough. But when we go wrong, we haven't problem to say it: http://www.bitsandchips.it/english-news/5608-one-of-our-sources-fooled-the-r9-390x-will-sport-hawaii-gpu
A journalist have to be fair and honest with his own readers.
So, because a lot of users, in a lot of forums, write that B&C is just a clickbait site, we want to show you our collection of some news come true.
05/02/2014: We wrote that AMD is working on new x86 uArch. Ready by 4Q 2016, 1Q 2017. It will be Simultaneous Multi Threading
05/06/2014: AMD talks about a new x86 uArch. Ready by 2H16 (AMD Zen FX CPUs Set To Debut In Q4 2016, APUs In 2017). It will be SMT
05/06/2014: Zen will be a Mini Core, it will have high frequencies and it will allow custom designs
11/24/2015: “The Zen core itself is surprisingly compact and power efficient. The CPU die itself isn’t particularly large and the Zen FX CPUs will target mainstream price points in which they will compete very aggressively with their upcoming Intel counterparts”
05/20/2014: We wrote that AMD new uArch will have a new Cache
05/06/2015: AMD Analyst Day: Zen will have a new Cache
07/24/2014: Carrizo will be only on Mobile platforms
01/09/2015: Confirmed Carrizo only on Mobile platforms
07/31/2014: Carrizo will have a dual DDR3/DDR4 IMC
02/25/2015: Confirmed Carrizo has a dual DDR3/DDR4 IMC
07/24/2014: FM2+ Socket until 2016
02/27/2015: “Core” Skylake CPUs will not have AVX512 SIMD
09/12/2014: Skylake will have a dual DDR3/DDR4 IMC
02/24/2015: Confirmed Skylake has a dual DDR3/DDR4 IMC
04/27/2015: We wrote that 20nm of GloFo are dead and Buried (thanks to Mentor Graphics and Synopsys contacs)
06/30/2015: 20nm of GloFo officially Dead
02/04/2016: Zen's IPC [at last] equal to Broadwell-E's IPC
18/08/2016: Confirmed via Blender Benchmark
02/04/2016: TSMC will produce the huge GP100/P100 Interposer
05/04/2016: Confirmed by NVIDIA
25/03/2016: AM4 has the mounting holes arranged differently than older Sockets
11/09/2016: Thermalright confirmed that
22/03/2016: AM4 Socket will be µOPGA and it will have 1331 pins
19/09/2016: Confirmed
21/05/2016: Civilization VI will have a solid DirectX 12 backend
14/07/2016: AMD and Firaxis confirm our leak: Civ 6 will use DX12 API
06/08/2016: AMD will probably use the DDR4 PHY of RAMBUS in Zen (Up to 3600 MHz and over)
25/05/2017: Confirmed by AMD - AGESA 1.0.0.6
23/02/2017: Intel could commercialize a 12C/24T Skylake-X
21/04/2017: Confirmed
12/05/2017: Naples and ThreadRipper will share the – almost – same Socket
17/05/2017: Confirmed by AMD
06/01/2017: NVIDIA strategy is hurting the partnership with EVGA
20/09/2022: EVGA Will No Longer Make Graphics Cards for Nvidia
And there are a lot more ... ;)