Related/context: Techrights Statement on Phoronix

Last year: Each of these processors costs about $10,000.

Why brag about it?

Just now:

This was on the last page (page 5).

But AMD, Microsoft's Pluton partner, sends loads of gifts, so this question could be asked better.

This is also days ago:

How many people or companies except Microsoft even bother with this thing? This is only promoted by Microsoft sites, ramming down our throats the "Microsoft loves Linux" narrative

Summary: Not for the first time [1, 2], Phoronix is running something akin to Azure 'ads' and there are other Microsoft puff pieces