The most likely explanation to me is that the authors are connected to people shorting AMD, and they wished to get the maximum impact out of their release. It didn’t seem to hurt the stock any though.
> There’s a notification on CTS-Labs site that it may have a financial interest in the companies it investigates (shorting AMD stock is practically a pastime in financial circles).
I guess you could try to ruin some people by leaking fake inside information like this and getting them to load up on AMD puts.
If that was possible, I can see this move being profitable, but if it was to move the actual AMD price it was a failure.