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hey Ron I'm Steve from gamers Nexis dotnet and this is your weekly hardware news recap first up for the week nvidia posted their fourth quarter fiscal year 2016 that results earnings revenue all of that and they had record-breaking quarters and actually record-breaking year earning one point four billion dollars per quarter this is up twelve percent compared to the previous year's fourth quarter and that income was at 207 million for a quarter for 2016 now again this is their fiscal year obviously not the actual year and that is up 7% from quarter four of their last fiscal year and videos a GAAP adjusted revenue for the fiscal year of 2016 was a staggering 5.01 billion dollars up seven percent from last year and net income was six hundred and fourteen million which is down 3% but non-gaap net income was 929 million which is up 16% from the fiscal 2015 year so it just kind of depends on what you're looking at you can see a chart on the screen with some more information on that now another big news item for the week was Vulcan so Vulcan is new API and that is being developed by the Chronos group who are working with Nvidia and the basically anyone relevant Intel of course and they're developing this API to basically compete or at least complement DirectX 12 on non Windows 10 devices including Windows 7 8.1 and 10 of course and then Linux operating systems are getting Vulcan as well so we benchmarked Vulcan if you're subscribing to the channel already you've seen our benchmarks and we found that presently with the one game that supports it which is Talos principle the API actually performs worse than DirectX 11 so that's that's not that surprising to be honest because it's brand new the game Talos principle has not fully optimized for Vulcan it wasn't built from the ground up for Vulcan which certainly is is an inhibitor to performance enhancements with the new API especially that since the game was built on DX 11 and 9 even is supported in in the Talos principle but going forward volcán should be a pretty interesting API to follow because does allow developers to get closer to the hardware and that would allow for better overall performance it removes from the bottleneck in from a cpu and should be a good complement to DirectX 12 for especially platforms that are not Windows 10 Intel this week also confirmed that it's 10 nanometer chips will be coming to market by the second half of 2017 and in that same confirmation they said that they will not delay past 2017 so that definitely puts a bit of a muffle to some of the concerns that 10 nanometer would be further delayed certainly a trend that's occurred in fabrication and chip making in the past but Intel is hard set on a delivery of ten nanometer chips by second half of 2017 and for those who don't necessarily know what that means generally these shrinks and the die the fab improved things like power efficiency theoretically improve overall power output in terms of performance because you can pack more on their transistors are smaller so you can fit more on their the die package can remain the same or shrink depending on what sort of the objective is for that particular architecture so it's a big deal to move down to 10 nanometers and as Intel continues advance you know as AMD continued advancing that video of course as well they are actually going to start encountering issues because the shrinks are now getting to a size especially on the eight nanometer point which is coming up soon where new fab technology will be required even to start dealing with these chips with the silicon at that sort of ultra microscopic level so very interesting to follow going forward but in the meantime we can expect 10 nanometer chips for the immediate future and that will hopefully become into the normal socketed processors as well this next news item was a bit of a shocker when I read it gigabyte is shipping motherboards for the 990 FX series and other am3+ processors and this is surprising because it's definitely a dated architecture at this point is n is sort of right around the corner the AP use are really the only modern product that Handy's shipping but gigabyte has decided to push one last effort of motherboards through the channel as Zen is sort of sitting in the pipes ready to go or at least preparing to get ready to go so the new motherboards they have 990 FX and a 970 board is 990 FX gaming a 970 gaming sort of sticking with everyone else's branding out there and all these really do of note is a Dem dot two slots to the board and they also add USB 3.1 neither of which is natively supported on the now aged am the platform and that's alongside things like pcie 3.0 USB 3.0 actually is not natively supported either it's a lot of stuff that's not natively supported on these boards that are on architectures or chipsets from 2011 and even earlier in some instances so that is the last push probably for the FX series of gaming processors right now in terms of motherboard support the last news item for the week pertains to free sync which we've seen come up a few times recently in these news recaps including last week's where we talks about HP's laptops getting an AMD freesync in the immediate news item a just happened Andy has now shipped a Linux driver that will bring a free sync support to Linux operating systems and these senior software engineer Harry wetland stated that free sync support will be coming to Andy's Linux drivers through the AMD GPU DAL driver and in this note we saw that other changes included support for six displays in any configuration including HDMI DVI DP DP MST etc solid support of 4k at 60 timings on ap use power features such as clock accurate bandwidth formulas and improved interaction with power play to maximize power savings and improved audio and other info frame related features that was all on the list from this new AMD APU and free sync driver push especially as it pertains to Linux so that is all for the last week in 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