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we're only two days into this week and already have plenty of news items to discuss for the weekly news to round up as it were the first one on the agenda is an AMD and NVIDIA sort of rivalry as you might expect between them this is something that happens a lot where one of them will try and smoke the other one for coverage and for spectacle in the industry and for now this is having next week on the twenty-eighth februari 28 where andy will be hosting its capsaicin events which seems becoming an annual thing for the RTG group or Radeon technologies the graphics group and then video will be hosting what it's calling a geforce gtx gaming celebration what exactly that entails we do not yet know it could be the usual battleship or aircraft carrier celebration that they've done in the past which seems certainly bombastic or it could actually be some kind of product announcement which would certainly be more interesting to all of us so we're not sure what that is just yet but it will be held on the same day as capsaicin and this is really just more of an interesting thing to look at in the industry where one of the two caught wind of what the other was doing and now it's their event and started sending out invites so I'm not sure who came up with their event first but it is not uncommon for the other vendor to then step in to their own event and fight for coverage so kind of interesting in that regard this is also something we see what's product launches where especially online video side and this is maybe some topic for our Sunday videos in the future but we're nvidia even with kv lake just so happened to announce their intensity intensity TI laptops on the same day with and these announcements they tend to announce pains the next day the same day so it's a very interesting cycle of competing with one another for news so februari 28 set your calendars for that we will be out in the area san francisco area actually we're here right now as well we'll be at the events covering them so you'll be able to find that coverage as always on gamers nexus thought net there are 48 total a ID partners or add in board partners the vendors who make the graphics cards and according to jon peddie research which usual grain of salt with their findings but according to JP are the GPU sales AIB sales specifically increased for quarter for of 2016 jpr says the AIB shipments peaked in 1999 with 114 million units and for perspective in 2015 we saw just 44 million units ship again according to JP our quarter 4 2016 showed a five to six percent growth and AIB sales partly due to the expected holiday buying but it was also above the average growth rate for the last few years according to the report AIB shipments in the fourth quarter of 2015 vs 4th quarter of 2016 year-over-year posted a growth of thirty-six percent so a total of forty-six percent total attach rate of a i beez to systems the all-time high was sixty-three percent in quarter one 2008 but I GPS and other market factors have eaten away at that attach rate for a i beez to the complete system market trends that show Andy drawing from twenty one point six percent in the previous year in terms of total market share of graphics cards sold to twenty nine point five percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 with NVIDIA of course taking over the remaining seventy percent or so it's a bit late in the game now for the RX for 60 but msi has got two new ones and out they are two gigabyte and four gigabyte models both of the 896 core variants not the new expanded variants of the 460 and the only interesting factor here is that they are half pipe models so these are smaller form factor RX 460 video cards that are intended of course for use and things like SSS pcs or HCPCS a growing market right now the units are 1090 megahertz at base clock twelve hundred megahertz boost clock again 896 cores and I guess the only other metric of note or spec of note is that they are DVI and HDMI there's no display port on these but they're half height so you don't have a whole lot of room for those IO options anyway Gabe Newell says that valve remains optimistic about VR but it is quotes pretty comfortable with the idea that VR will turn out to be a complete failure this is following that some controversy over the fact that there are no public sales figures for really any VR device oculus or valve in particular which are of course these two main ones that we're looking at for the gaming market and the PC space the HTC vive has really only rumored figures out about 140,000 total units shipped with nothing official to back that up if it turns out to be true that there are lower sales than expected which is probably a safe bet because if they were really I you would certainly hear valve or anyone else bragging about it to no end but if it turns out to be true that their lower volume the most likely reasons for that would probably be one cost especially for the vibe a setup space requirements for the vibe or the risk with the new touch controllers and of course it's just a new thing and whenever you have a new same it's not going to be an easy time entering the market particularly when there's a high startup cost to buy it as a user and a high investment cost for your pc there's not a huge amount of content out there there is a lot of great VR content but work work with me here vr enthusiasts you know I'm talking about there's a long way to go before developers really crack the new formula for how to build games in this format so valve is hedging their bets and saying that they're okay with it either way psychology as a show of good faith is extending its warranty by one year on the ds4 15 plus vs 15 15 plus which we actually have this does interests us the GS 18 15 + + 2 for 15 plus and then some RS units as well the reason they're extending the warranty again as a show of good faith is because of the recent intel atom cpu defects or errata issues anyway where the c25 38 cpu is showing some chance of endangering data or just kind of outright dying fine ology says that over the last few years it has observed analyzed all of its data for those units that I just listed and has a term that they are not at risk of data loss it has determined that those units are within their spec and their quality standards and they don't really seem to think that there is a need for any chaos runs in it that said they're expanding the warranty by one year so owners of the units hopefully feel a bit more assured but just be careful with your data for type of raid sign ology or otherwise that's on those Intel Atom cp's that are affected so that is it for this news roundup as always check back regularly throughout the week for additional coverage reviews things like that traveling right now if that's not obvious by the limited light setup but we'll be back shortly and have more reviews tear downs and things like that for you subscribe for more go to patreon.com/scishow emma's Nexus 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