That report is so negatively biased it's suspicious. AMD finances were known to be dire for the last decade. They didn't established as just an intel competitor again, they won hard technical and market praises. The console and mining markets are not what to look at, what about the rest of the whole personal computer one ?
Of course I'm not shocked that Ars picked it up. Their journalistic quality has majorly slipped over the last few years. AMD is punching way above their weight class lately. It's causing competitors (or really competitor since Intel is their main one) to have to scramble to counter them.
What does the fact that they picked a report that had an impact on a company (in other words a newsworthy story) with their "journalistic quality"?
Even if the report is back, it had an impact, and that should be reported. You'd rather they didn't covered stories involving upsetting things?