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welcome back to another hardware news recap first up we got an upgrade for build Zords PCB photos so now we can take better pictures of these small components on them this actually came from Intel we'll be talking about very briefly about what this is related to later in the video today but for this hardware news video we're also talking about gtx 1060 gddr5 X cards they were spoiled a little while ago but now they are finally hitting the market finally as if as if there was a lot of demand for them and then jpr finds video card shipments down 16% Intel planning a 2020 launch for Arctic sound GPUs as reported by digit x and the FTC investigating loop boxes everyone's favorite topic before that this video is brought to you by thermal grizzly and their high-end thermal compounds thermal grizzly makes cryo not paste for high thermal performance and conductivity without being electrically conductive so you don't have to worry about shorting components cryo knot is particularly good for 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miss one but I think the current listing of gtx 1060 s includes 1066 gigabyte 1063 gigabyte 1065 gigabyte that was a China launched and then 10 69 gigabits per second and 1060 gddr5 X I feel like I'm missing one I'm not sure they've been as many GTX 10 60s as AMD presently has for just our excuse in general so let me know if I'm leaving one out but the g5 acts cards we're gonna try and get one whether or not they are actually worth buying well I guess depend on the price and if they end up as a replacement rather than an upgrade over the existing ten sixties because some point you just start bumping into the territory of a better video card anyway MSI is one of the first to roll onto these apps they're rolling out a GTX 1060 armored 6g d5 X which is a six gigabyte GG r 5x card that's an OC edition that'll retain the expected 1208 cuda cores or lanes on vectors and then it comes equipped with a six gigabyte capacity of g5x expectedly card will run base and boost 1544 in 1759 megahertz with memory clocks at 2002 megahertz or an effective 8000 eight megahertz and that's across a 192 bit memory bus there's no tax part they are offering the new gtx 1066 you buy DDR 5 X destroyer card and this will run reference frequencies of 1509 sevens you know eight megahertz base and boost respectively same thing for the rest though so the newer F II cards equipped with gddr5 X will be selling for $300 and these a IB models will probably be in that bracket if not a bit north of the $300 mark we'll talk about it more this kind of follows the other news items that we report on I think of the last episode yes where we talked about Nvidia's board partners facing severe overstock issues and NVIDIA itself facing overstock issues of GP 104 GPUs so this follows up in that story with means of trying to offload tell that supply so they can launch an RT X 2060 or GTX 2060 card sometime next year probably jpr finds video card shipments are down 16 percent we've discussed AMD and NVIDIA earnings briefly lately and how those numbers Illustrated the effects of the cryptocurrency mining rug being pulled out from under both companies preliminary information from John petty research paints a similar picture so JP ours research shows that video card shipments are down 16% in third quarter 2018 year-over-year and down 19.2% from second quarter 2018 JP are also predicts the overstock in the channel will extend into 2019 shrinking profits for vendors JP are states that the us-china trade war and stock market dips have led to a slow sell-off of excess inventory both AMD and NVIDIA have stated that they believe the inventory surplus will take multiple quarters to correct and have adjusted their fourth quarter 2018 expectations accordingly and this is following some contradictory statements previously where both companies more or less said we're not making any money on cryptic cryptocurrency mine or any meaningful amount of money and then suddenly all of their healthcare revenue reports are down when cryptocurrency mining crashes so making a bit there anyway next one Intel planning a 2020 launch for Arctic Sound the GPU as noted by digit Times Online a digitized report says that Intel is planning to announce the arrival of its discrete GPU codenamed Arctic sound at an unknown conference in December featuring Raja Kaduri and other Intel officials an attack previously reported on Intel's assembler architecture event and we're gonna be there that's why we got this thing but what we don't know yet is what the architecture event will be about so it could be completely unrelated we don't know if it's gonna be CPU GPU or some SSDs or opting there's they make a lot of things so there could be two events here in December we're not clear on it but either way we're gonna be at an arc event it's just what that will be about specifically we don't yet know what we do know though from other reporting is that or just their own announcements in general Intel's got several CES keynotes coming up some in automotive and things like that and none of them presently mentioned the presence of Arctic sound as far as we're aware doesn't mean it won't be there also doesn't mean it will be there speculation has been rife regarding Arctic sound and many place its arrival in 2020 in fact Intel's previous teaser video after bringing on the one of the former and the lead marketing guys and these Chris hook they made a video saying to expect the graphics device in I think it amounted to 20/20 so we kind of have that as a known date at this point it does a third attempt now at crossover success in the GPU market they previously attempted to break into GPUs in 1998 and in 2009 one of those was Larrabee Arctic sound is expected to be leveraged for gaming AI and big markets like machine learning so Intel has yet to confirm anything officially other than the teaser video we saw a couple months ago next up the FTC will investigate loop boxes as esa continues to try and defend the existence of loot boxes so loot boxes have long been a point of controversy or a discussion alongside microtransactions kind of a new approach to micro transactions additionally an increasingly concerned public has pushed back against game makers for including loot boxes in their games this is particularly citing their similar similarity to gambling and the arguably predatory marketing towards a younger audience and that's why it's gotten some attention now from politicians even so the FTC the Federal Trade Commission in the US has agreed to investigate loot boxes on behalf of Senator Maggie Hassan this is a quote from Senator Hassan who said loot boxes are now endemic in the video game industry and are present in everything from casual smartphone games to the newest high budget releases also warning that children are an especially easy target for loop boxes the ESA the Entertainment Software Association has defended loot boxes in the past attempting to debunk any parallels between loot boxes and gambling the ESA has also stated that it prefers self-regulation for the games industry rather than government regulation polygon reached out to the ESA four-count regarding the investigation and the ESA had this quote loot boxes are one way that players can enhance the experience that video games offer contrary to assertions loot boxes are not gambling they have no real world value players always receive something that enhances their experience and they are entirely optional to purchase they can enhance the experience for those who choose to use them but have no impact on those who do not which is almost certainly objectively false but that depends on which game you're looking at so this sidesteps the possible predatory targeting of children and the education of parents which is ultimately what Senator Hassan is after and it's always comes down to protection for the younger crowd with games and sometimes depending on on what area you're looking at for games it's really more led by people who don't know what they're talking about but in this instance loot boxes I think have been pretty much universally disliked moving on from loot boxes Amazon in the news again Amazon is back in hardware news this week dealing a second blow to serve a partner Intel after recently announcing that it would be deploying I am the epic chips and some of its AWS solutions Amazon has now announced that it is working to make its own ARM based instances with its own graviton CPU the ARM based graviton is a 64-bit processor created by annapurna labs a chip company Amazon acquired in 2015 it will power the new a1 instances being made available to all AWS customers a1 instances are supposed to offer up to a 45 percent lower price than Intel or even AMD instances so you can now purchase an Amazon basics server room if you wish with the Annapurna Annapurna graviton CPU ARM based processor cadence I'm on the first to use Samsung's seven LPP solution Samsung announced last month that it's seven nanometer UV lithography process was available and ready for mass production now it appears that cadence is among the first to leverage that process as they recently announced they've taped out their gzg r6 IP using Samsung 7l PP g DDR memory has seen limited use cases outside of graphics cards but the big memory makers like micron and Samsung have indicated interest in the adoption of g6 for non GPU applications for once so to give us some specific examples cadence thinks that it can use G DDR 6 for things like AI instances or SOC s things like that and machine-learning autonomous vehicles cryptocurrency blockchain all major buzzwords that cadence has used recently for its potential use cases cadence if you don't know is a company that makes some software as well for things like parametric analysis and for signal integrity solutions so they are a fairly large company in the space they work with most of the larger manufacturers and engineering firms as well cadence is GDR 6ip should be moving to 16 gigabytes per second per pen and have a 500 gigabit per second peak bandwidth between the SOC and each DDR 6 dot and the IP solution will be packaged as it'll be a single package design allowing customers to replicate Cadence's results in their own products next extreme tech reporting a rumor that AMD may double down on l3 cache for 7 nanometer epic CPUs coming up soon and these 7 animator epic chips dubbed roam which we've discussed previously have now appeared in the SCI software standard database and this possibly indicates a changed the cache hierarchy with the new epic CPUs so the database entry has since been deleted but overclocked 3d was able to get a screenshot of that and there's not much to go on here but in the screenshot the database entry refers to quote AMD engineering sample which of course indicates a pre-production sample from engineering so interestingly it's listed with a 16 by 16 megabyte l3 cache configuration assuming that listing is accurate and it may not be this breaks down to form a gigabytes per core double that of the previous 2 megabyte per core solution with AMD epoch while this isn't fully confirmed and we're not clear on all of the changes that Andy is making to it's 7 nanometer solution for the server roam silicon doubling l3 cache would certainly not advantages in latency with some of the workloads that that AMD has struggled with in the past so new 3d mark ray tracing benchmark up next this is the last news item we have for today and this is from ul benchmarks which is the company that used to be known as future mark before they were acquired by Underwriters Laboratories ul benchmarks announced that there's a new 3d mark port royal benchmark coming up and it's the newest to be added to the benchmark suite in the 3d mark suite it's a ray tracing benchmark and it uses a direct x-ray trace and our D XR which is a Microsoft solution that Nvidia is also leveraging RTX solution so UL benchmarks notes that the benchmark isn't exclusive to anybody's r-tx technology although it does require DXR the benchmark was developed with input from Nvidia AMD Intel Microsoft and others and should work with any graphics card with drivers supporting DXR and the ray-tracing api as it stands that's currently limited to nvidia RT x-series cards but that may change in the future portroyal is supposedly an example of what realistic and practical ray-tracing will look like in upcoming games as the benchmark uses a ray tracing effects in real time with a resolution of 1440 P it'll be added to the 3d mark test suite in January of 2019 and the first demonstration of this will be at an overclocking event coming up in December and that's it for this week's roundup so subscribe as always for more you get a store da Gama's axis net to pick up a shirt like this one or one of our mod mats that I have on the table in front of me and these will be coming back in stock in the next probably two weeks or so as well if you 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