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AMD's a TMP operations were just sold the Fujitsu micro electronics for 371 million dollars which gives AMD a bit of a cash injection and helps move them toward becoming properly fabulous which is something they've been trying to do for a number of years now so this is in line with their original shift to give globalfoundries their fabrication operations and now they're moving away their testing packaging and basically product assembly applications to this Fujitsu micro electronics group which will now own eighty-five percent of AMD's stake in the a TMP group this allows AMD to continue focusing its logistical efforts entirely on engineering and software and the asset sale gives them a bit of cash but just for reference other vendors like Nvidia and Qualcomm are also effectively fabulous so that's really not that big of a difference at this point with Andy versus some of its major competitors in terms of their fabrication philosophy Intel remains one of the few juggernauts which still owns fabrication plants entirely on its own alongside the likes of Samsung this news is just kind of interesting so we just got back from pax east of course and the Boston Convention Center this year was upgraded with all aruba networks access points and routers which the ones that use cost about a thousand dollars each and they have more than 500 of them deployed at the bcec this effort was so that the pax attendees could actually access wireless internet while inside the convention center for those of you who haven't been to a convention where gamers are present it is effectively impossible to use the internet or Wi-Fi normally so this was a big deal and it actually did stay up pretty much the whole time they had more than 36,000 total unique users throughout the weekend pax is known to have about 70,000 plus attendees and there was no major down time this event so that's effectively unprecedented for a major gaming convention total uplink and downlink bandwidth just for a fun fact here the total utilization of network traffic throughout the weekend hits 16.1 terabytes of data which was processing at nearly 500 megabytes per second over the three-day event with the more than 36,000 users on the wireless network peak concurrent traffic broke bc ii c records at 15,000 users all at once of course only twenty-five percent of total traffic was used by wired booths like blizzard with overwatch or cliffs to do with lawbreakers and other games this news item came out of pax east and we already talked about it in depth but it's the appearance of you two connectors on consumer grade motherboards so this was done with the gigabyte boards that we just recently looked at you dot 2 is somewhat comparable to m dot two we've got a whole video comparing the two of them if you want to know more but the basics of it are that u dot 2 and m dot to you both use PCIe lanes for their storage transfer their protocol and that is a maximum of four lanes per device so you know four lanes to you to four lanes to m dot to the major difference here is that you dot to more closely resembles SATA connectors and even SAS connectors on the drive side which means that they take a blessed space on the motherboard so there's less physical you space used for the board on like m dot to which uses a pretty large footprint and it's also a double stacked cable so it's kind of like if you imagine to say two connectors stacked on top of each other on the board that's what you to looks like but using PCIe so you've got much greater throughput potential in the span of several gigabytes per second versus the SATA sort of 500 megabytes five and fifty megabytes per second limitation although the lane assignment is the same between m dot two and you to the theoretical maximum speed of you two so far has become more saturated than m dot 2 has offered for consumers and that's just the nature of having 2.5 inch sized SSDs with the you to interface which is its primary advantage because they're just cheaper and they have higher speed controllers in them for the ones we've seen so far the U dot 200 face looks a bit like the SAS connector on the drive side it's got extra PCIe lanes over some of the existing options and the Z 170 and x 99 HSI Oh lane architecture means that motherboard vendors can sort of independently determine how many you two ports they want on the board and the last item is pretty quick seagate has just begun shipping their ten terabyte Enterprise drives these are hard drives filled with helium by the way to their their enterprise clients and that would include people like super micro not really consumer targeted at all right now but these high-capacity drives will eventually make it to consumers with or with out the helium aspect of it the drives have seven platters and 14 heads and they now even use smart data to tell you when the helium starting to run out which really shouldn't happen any time soon but it's certainly possible that's all for this week's 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