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welcome back to another hardware news recap for this week we're kind of recapping again the NVIDIA MDA discussion that we posted previously on the channel I'm joined by senior AMD correspondent snowflake who I don't know if she has anything to add this episode but we'll also be talking about micron ramping their JD dr6 production the GTX 1053 gigabyte card that has arrived officially by the way and tsmc ramping 7 nanometer production before that this video is brought to you by our limited edition of foil anniversary shirt this shirt commemorates our ten-year anniversary design and is available in foil on a high quality cotton shirt completely custom designed for GN we're making a limited amount of these and then we'll never make them again so get your pre-order in now to ensure you get yours go to store like Aaron's Nexus net to grab the giana foil teardown anniversary shirt now ok ok she's not a fan of the Nvidia news items for killing the claim Nvidia NDA discussion and the GTX 1050 discussion he done thank you so first one is Gianna LT acts we're gonna be or I'm going to be specifically at minuses Expo on July 14th I think it is so at Elte X I think they're doing a lot of stuff like case tosses I think they're doing deleting instructional guidance and stuff like that I've offered to assist with some kind of booth there's an event or something like that so anyway I'll be there if you show up come say hi we bring a mod mat or something like that I'd be happy to sign it so first first real news item and videos NDA discussion this is just ok really you're gonna destroy my paper and then leave this is just further clarifying on some comments we did that video where I brought on a lawyer and talked about the Nvidia NDA that got kind of big news out of almost really seemingly nowhere so one more point on that a lot of things I saw the comments I saw in that video some of them we're about well but this NDA will prevent GPP too from getting out in the future if there's a GTV to the that specific sentiment which seemed pretty common on Reddit and elsewhere is very incorrect because the thing is an NDA doesn't just like it's not like it just stops information and video would have to give us the information confidentially and then say this is under NDA so a couple of things here about GBP GBP the original and as far as we know the only version it wasn't briefed to the press and so it would not be covered under confidential information it was not information provided by in video was found through third parties specifically by hard OCP and later we and others talked to other third parties about it so none of that would be considered confidential information which is defined in the NDA document it's in the first sentence so if you have concerns about what is confidential information read the first sentence and then read what apply is the whole thing as one page and then there's a second page of signatures so I would encourage you to actually read the document if you're concerned about something like that the other thing is if there were something truly evil like a GPB to and video wouldn't brief us on it anyway so even confidentially so if you're worried about something super evil not getting out because the press are under NDA that's kind of a false premise more likely it wouldn't get out because the press wouldn't be told and maybe eventually a third party tells us or someone figures out something evils going on whatever that's not covered under confidential information separately and I said this in the video but I want to reiterate it here information has a way of getting out so if there's something really bad going on I'm sure that it will find a way out somehow so I wouldn't be worried about that either also if there was something legitimately illegal going on there are protections for exposing those types of pratik practices so all this is just to say the comments about well this NDA is going to prevent a GP p2 from happening no because GPP was not confidential information it would not be covered under an NDA it was from a third party hopefully I've made that clear now so that specific concern is invalid but anyway it just honestly seems like a lot of people didn't read the document they just read the comments and in comment sections on reddit and then parotid them so seriously if you have not read it it's a very simple NDA it is one-page I think it's like five or six actual paragraphs it takes a few minutes it's not that complicated it's not like it's not shrouded in legalese or anything like that it's very plain language if you've ever seen it NDA before it shouldn't be that shocking so I would encourage you to read it if you have concerns next one next news item also you can watch our discussion with a lawyer if you're curious about his take on it micron is rampion GDD are six production so this is pretty big news micron has announced that they are commencing production of the GDD r6 memory following their g5 acts memory they're the only vendor who made g5 X and that means that micron becomes the last of the big three to announce their mass production for DDR six hynix has been in mass production for a little bit now Samsung as well micron will initially be rolling out a few different eight gigabit chips for graphics for self-driving or automotive applications and for networking and micron also has plans in the future for faster 16 gigabit per second chips for reference gddr5 runs at between 6 & 8 gigabits per second 8 on the high end 7 on these sort of gtx 1050 class cards and also for reference gt-r 5x or g5 x runs between 10 and 11 gigabits per second on average mostly on the high end and video well entirely on the high end nvidia cards and micron also noted that first round of chips will be 10 12 14 gigabit per second modules at eight gigabit for the individual units and gd-r six will supersede the decade-old now gddr5 memory format for graphics and also the more recent g5x going to be better than that the new memory will offer a density improvement up to 32 gigabytes capacity the memory also should have a lower operating voltage between 1.25 and 1.3 5 volts which is a production from the g5 and g5x voltage of 1.5 to 1.6 sometimes a bit lower depending on the application GD r6 also stands to offer improvements in data rate overall and micron has successfully overclocked one of its gta6 chips prototypes to 20 gigabits per second showing some range not really I probably not stable or they chip it at that but it's possible to overclock them pretty high so a big improvement over gddr5 we've previously discussed pricing of GD r 6 and we spoke with supplier sources as close to SK Hynix who told us at the time that we should expect approximately a 20% increase in BOM or bill of materials price over GG r 5 with plans to lower that to closer to 10% later so if a module costs $8 typically for one add 20% and that's G DDR 6 next news item gtx 1053 gigabyte cards have arrived if you needed more graphics cards so the new graphics card that centered the channel is still on Pascal it's nothing new it's the GTX hundred the 3 gigabyte which increases coup de coeur count from 640 on the original 1050 to 768 which is actually exactly what the 1050 Ti uses for core count CUDA cores if you were to call them that we have a video on whether that's correct nomenclature elsewhere and that puts it closer to attendant DTI inspects it also the boost clock is increasing out of 1518 megahertz recommended from Nvidia up from 1455 on the original 1050 and significantly higher than the 1050 TI's base and boost although manufacturers can change those memory speed remains 7 gigabits per second so the only major downside or downgrade to the 1053 gigabyte is a drop to a 96 bit memory interface bus width from 128 and that brings down the memory bandwidth to 84 gigabytes per second from 112 on both the 1050 and the 1050 Ti and there's also obviously one extra gigabyte of memory on there up from 2 on the original 1053 gigabyte cards are expected to ship around $160 which is around the original 1050 Ti aftermarket card price which we actually did not recommend in 1050 TI's at that price originally but the market has changed substantially since then cards aren't as affordable as they should be the EVGA SC model will be around 170 and again considering videocard price for the last few months it's really difficult to gauge value these days prices change every day if everything we're MSRP that wouldn't be a good deal but that's not really always the case right now so I guess look around at other cards the 570 would be a significant improvement over the 1050 or TI but it's hard to find one so alternately a low-intensity would be a decent choice as well tsmc is next in the news TSMC has begun producing 7 nanometre products commercially and hopes to make 5 nanometer in 2019 or 2020 the company's technology symposium in Taiwan directly refuted claims that 7 nanometre yield was poor leading to higher prices and lower volume as speculated instead TSM's he stated that it's actually emboldened in its way for output by 9% for 7 nanometer the company is working on 50 taped out designs by end of year 2018 including major design focus on GPU AI and cryptocurrency a 6 Apple's upcoming a12 processor will also impact TSMC 7 nanometers focus the foundry already has a wait list of 20 customers for 7 nanometre including AMD Nvidia bit main and Qualcomm next up Nvidia and IBM in collaboration with numerous other partners have helped the u.s. usurped China as a owner of the world's fastest supercomputer the machine dubbed Summit has helped propel the u.s. back to the forefront of supercomputing and bested china's sunway thai who light machine Samet belong to the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and consumes 5,600 square feet of space Summit scored 120 2.3 petaflop sub compute performance on HP L the benchmark that top 500 uses to score supercomputers Samet consists of 40 356 nodes or compute servers interconnected each equipped with a pair of 22 core IBM power 9 CPUs 6 Nvidia Tesla V 1 100 GPUs and it consumes 15 megawatts of power where one megawatt equals 1,000 kilowatts so 15 megawatts would put you at 15 million watts Sierra is another IBM built machine represents the US and claims the number three slot Sierra's design is similar to that of summits overall the u.s. claims 124 of the top 500 supercomputers coming in behind China with 206 total systems some was conceived to research the fields of human disease astrophysics fusion energy and climate change and video notes that summit is capable of 3x ops of deep learning operations overall not a bad way to spend 200 billion dollars this next one's kind of interesting Corsair has acquired al gato the streaming cash card company courser recently got windfall from a venture capital firm and as such it seems like they've expanded their budget quite a bit so rather than make their own streaming device and compete they just decided to acquire al gato and they are now widening that their focus to include game streamers now as with most acquisitions of course our promises that al Qaeda will continue to operate largely independently without much influence or oversight from Corsair although that never really turns out to be the case as long as its overall positive though having more money is probably a good thing for the folks at El Gato of course I didn't disclose many details regarding the purchase such as the price or any potential staffing changes but they are looking to expand al Gatos reach in terms of products for streaming nanda prices should continue to decline into second half of 2018 for the next news item this is a report from dram exchange and trend force which suggests that the contract prices of nande used on SSDs will continue to decline for the second half of the year amidst improved yield rates of current gen and coupled with an and market research or reaching rather a balance between supply and demand and prices have been descending for two consecutive quarters now opposite of the ramp prices almost and suppliers are expected to postpone capacity expansion plans an attempt to moderate the price decline demand is expected to remain weak due to slow growth in notebooks a lack of specification upgrades in smartphones and less replacement demand overall however a looming iPhone release this fall could influence the nan market heavily next up gigabyte reiterated the gpo shipment decline coming up so in last week's Harvard news we mentioned reports that suggest today steep GPU decline in shipments overall due to mining demands wreckage and we had previous reports from JP are on the same subject this week gigabyte basically confirmed that the GPU market is preparing for steep declines ahead for the second half of 2018 with Pascal primarily gigabyte expects their GPUs shipments to fall 20% and second half with ASP or average selling price to drop by about 10 percent gigabyte and like the other AIB partners will be shifting focus back to the gaming market which should be a good thing for prices and some of that is reflected already so speaking of that hardware sales for the week GPU prices have actually been in returning someone to MSRP will link a couple of the better deals below in the description if you want one thread Ripper is more permanently dropped now the 1950 X is at $750 original price was a thousand it's a good deal just note that thread refer to is coming out in August and if there's a reason they're dropping the price so much we haven't tested thread referred to yet I don't have it but given the improvements and rise into or rise in plus if you prefer over the thread rip or over the original launch we could expect that similar improvements would be made for thread over to so either way though 750 is not a bad deal if you really need one and need a cheaper a Seuss's zenith extreme is also down to $500 following this and we'll link all of those on the description below so as always thank you for watching if you want to pick up our limited edition shirt that I'm wearing right now we have it on pre-order on store doc gamers Nexus net you can grab one there once they're all sold out that's it we're not making any more and go to patreon.com/scishow stops out directly that you're watching subscribe for more I'll see you all next time