Dylan Martin

Dylan Martin is a senior editor at CRN covering the semiconductor, PC, mobile device, and IoT beats. Over the past five years, Dylan has distinguished his coverage of the semiconductor industry thanks to insightful interviews with CEOs and top executives; scoops and exclusives about product, strategy and personnel changes; and analyses that dig into the why behind the news. He started covering semiconductors and IoT when he joined CRN in 2018, returned after a stint in 2022 expanding his semiconductor industry coverage to government policy and advanced technologies at The Register, for expanded coverage responsibilities that include a long-time interest of his: computers. A full-time tech journalist for nearly a decade, Dylan got his first taste covering the industry as a startup reporter for BostInno, an American City Business Journals property. He also worked as the online editor for business journal Mainebiz and as a municipal reporter for The Forecaster newspapers in midcoast Maine. Dylan received his B.A. in media studies from the University of Southern Maine, where he spent a great deal of his time working for the college newspaper and writing blogs about tech, music, and pop culture. His interests include spending time with his wife and daughter, tinkering with old computers, playing modern and retro video games, listening to podcasts, reading a mix of nonfiction and fiction books, watching TV shows and movies on his oversized TV, and enjoying Maine's outdoors. [email protected] linkedin.com/in/dylanljmartin/ twitter.com/DylanOnChips

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The Daily's Verdict

This author is known for its high journalistic standards. The author strives to maintain neutrality and transparency in its reporting, and avoids conflicts of interest. The author has a reputation for accuracy and rarely gets contradicted on major discrepancies in its reporting.

Bias

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  • Dylan Martin has a strong track record of interviewing CEOs and top executives, as well as obtaining scoops and exclusives about product, strategy, and personnel changes in the semiconductor industry.

Conflicts of Interest

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Contradictions

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  • HP commercial PC leader Guayente Sanmartin expects Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X processors for PCs to have 'much more success' with business customers than previous attempts.
  • Snapdragon X processors deliver a 'step function in graphics and processing and battery life', 12 hours of web browsing and 26 hours of video playback are possible with Snapdragon X, Microsoft's latest Surface Pro 11 is the best one ever made

Deceptions

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