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everyone welcome back to another hardware news recap for the last week this week we have news on things like the gtx 1650 specs and our biggest question to you all is how many of you care about this video card and that's a serious question please let us know in the comments also AMD and sony confirming some of the rumors from last week on third-generation Rison and Navi in the next PlayStation console MSI clarifying a statement on rising 3,000 support for 300 series boards and these 50th anniversary and some rumors about Samsung and Intel potentially working together before that this video is brought to you by the gigabyte z3 90 ARS master motherboard which comes equipped with one of the more powerful z3 90 BRS for heavier overclocks on the new 9th gen Intel CPUs the ARS Master is also one of the few motherboards with a really heat sink this generation featuring a mix of high surface area fins and looks oriented hover blocks oh and it's also got updated RGV illumination learn more at the link below the first news item is the GTX 1650 specs and price 1650 has been rumored for a while now we noticed with the 1616 on Ti there wasn't that much interest in it most of the reviews on youtube got about half of the views they typically get including ours J's was a bit low and this was true for most other reviewers as well so interest in the 1616 on Ti apparently not that high but the 1650 is what we're curious about supposed to be $150 in theory it should have based on tech power-ups spec sheet that they've posted in their comment section of one of their articles should have 896 CUDA cores it should be at sixteen sixty or so megahertz boost four gigabytes gddr5 128-bit interface which would be eight gigabit per second gddr5 memory and likely later there will be a ti because typically nvidia does this at this price class and it's also not a full GPU so should be 75 watts and no power connector that's really the main thing here it's it's like a 750 Ti to 1050 Ti replacement and I guess the question is do you care because we're going to review on but the amount of interest we saw in the 1660 review was not encouraging and shows that people seem to I don't know if it's if people have had too much nvidia lately or if it's just that it's a lower end product so the interest is naturally less or something like that but anyway sixteen fifty the rumored release date is April 23rd based on the story online Sony and AMD confirm third-generation rise in in their upcoming PlayStation partnership so the PlayStation 5 as we've been calling it is something we talked about in the last Hardware news episode as well Sony finally outlined some details about its upcoming successor to the PlayStation 4 in an interview with Wired magazine where mark Cerny spoke with Wired at length about the upcoming of hardware solutions for the PlayStation 5 the most notable item here is of course Sony's continued partnership with AMD which will see the console using a Zen 2 architecture third generation rise in SOC boasting 8 cores and 16 threads this is now confirmed the new PlayStation will also get a custom variants of and these upcoming Navi it should support well so here's here's where we get into the weeds a bit but supports ray-tracing and supports 8k does not mean plays at 8k this certainly does not mean plays 8k with ray-tracing that's not gonna happen but I guess let's let's talk about that word support for a moment technically just about everything out supports ray-tracing ray-tracing has been supported for decades so supports ray-tracing doesn't inherently mean anything real-time ray-tracing is what you want to hear if that's if that's the buzzword you care about right now and I mean an rx 580 supports rate racing you can do it it's not going to be fast and it probably won't be real-time but you can do it and as an example in blender you could do rate racing and then just render it out over time now this doesn't work for a game so typically what people may and when they're talking about supports rate racing for games is in real time the next question is how many samples are you taking and is there any denoise and applied and what other effects are chicks are being used to optimize this so supports rate racing is one thing but how well it actually does it and to what degree it can rate race is another secondarily to technically there's a ray traced audio solution you could do so supports ray tracing in conjunction with Sony saying that it's interested in improving its audio setup for the PlayStation 5 which is something that certainly confirmed as well could indicate ray traced audio as one of the interpretations of those two statements made separately so either way it's interesting here there's there's kind of two perspectives that we take on this one is either Nvidia knew that this was a plan and preempted it with RT X or the other one is Nvidia has such dominance in its marketing that by introducing real-time ray tracing making it a point of interest for people and dominating the news cycle with it for the past couple of months now Andy is now forced to acknowledge ray tracing as a feature when previously it wasn't really something people talked about for games so it's either Nvidia preempted a launch or AMD is forced to respond to Nvidia's advancements in ray tracing and either one of those is interested and may be worth a separate discussion topic but either way certainly confirmed these details with Wired so you can check the article linked in the description below if you want to see our show notes for that but 8k ray tracing are the buzz words and then eight core 16 threads for the SOC solution with a variant of Navi in it and more to come later on that msi clarifies rise in 3000 support on the 300 series boards sort of so earlier this week there's a reddit thread which is always a great source of news and it talked about an msi service rep stating that the upcoming rise in 3000 series processors would not work on the X 370 motherboards that MSI has this is a customer support rep they don't really typically have insight to upcoming product roadmaps and support so it's not really surprised and that msi came out later and officially said it is coming to our attention that an msi customer support representative has regrettably misinformed in a messiah with regards to potential support for next-gen AMD CPUs on the MSI x3 70 X power game in titanium motherboard through this statement we want to clarify the current situation at this point we are still performing an extensive testing on our existing lineup of 300 and 400 series a.m. for boards to verify potential compatibility for the next-gen and the rise in CPUs to be clear our intention is to offer maximum compatibility for as many MSI products as possible towards the launch of the next-gen and these CPUs will release a compatibility list of MSI motherboards so crisis averted but the skepticism here comes because I am these new CPUs will be higher power consumption especially the high core count 16 core CPUs that we're expecting at some point from rising 3000 series and with that means potentially some limitations with the power design on these older motherboards that were made for the first generation rise in release so these X 370 boards of the patch probably won't work with the highest court count rise in 3000 series CPUs just because of power requirements but that doesn't mean that all 3000 series CPUs won't work on it so we'll keep an eye out on that and up next TSM C is 2nd gen 7 nanometre extreme ultraviolet lithography or UV lithography is set for june volume production EU V's been sort of a a holy grail for the THOG Rafi for a long time now and for silicon fabrication and manufacturing finally there's some spread and usage and tsmc is among the first to implement EUV successfully despite over a decade of not being able to quite get it done we have another video in the past by the way with David Cantor talking about EUV ten nanometer process struggles intel has faced and ye UV is important versus things like existing lithographic approaches to manufacturing silicon or things like multi patterning and you can check that video out we'll put it somewhere up there in the cards if you want to see it tsmc will be ramping its first generation 7 nanometre UV based process into mass production this June according to the new reports TSM c7 nanometer node will power chips for customers such as Apple Qualcomm Huawei Huawei Kiran 985 processors are expected to be the first chips mass-produced on tsmc is seven nanometer lines with apples a 13 processor to follow TSMC also has plans to leverage its second-generation EUV to produce chips at an intermediary sixth nanometer node and at five nanometer with the latter currently in a risk of production so Huawei an appalam on the first to use this new manufacturing line next up Sam son is ready in five nanometer EUV for customer sampling and this is in similar semiconductor news to TSM C's not to be left out of the EU v-ray Samsung is working on its own chips that are sub 10 nanometer the preeminent players have been samsung and tsmc thus far as GlobalFoundries has largely bowed out of this race and Intel has obviously struggled Samson announced the addition of a five nanometer process No - its foundry that's apparently far enough along to be ready for customer sampling Samsung's 5 nanometer FinFET process uses UV and like TSMC Samsung appears to have made great strides in the realm of EUV Samsung states that the 5 nanometer process will port much of what was used at 7 nanometers IP tools design rules etc to ease migration and time to market samsung also notes that it has 60 nanometer in a customer tape out but didn't elaborate on the designs or customers Samsung is also expected to bring more UV production lines into swain and the second half of this year in commemoration of AMD's 50th anniversary coming up on May 1st and he was founded in 1969 it would appear that there are some celebratory anniversary edition pieces of hardware coming out so last year you might remember Intel released the i7 8086 K which was in limited limited quantities of I don't know if we can say how many there were but it was in like the hundreds of thousands so limited quantities for the 8086 K an anniversary edition of its vaunted 8086 processor from ages past and he is now looking to do something similar with its Rison 720 700 X several online retailers have posted a placeholder for the chip and while none of them detailed specifications it does appear that it will be with the Wraiths prism LED cooler and should be listed for around $340 sapphire AMD's premiere AIB partner also appears to be getting in on the celebration a listing on retailer PC di GA indicates sapphire will be releasing the Sapphire AMD 50th anniversary edition Nitro+ Radeon rx 598 gigabyte video card it's really long name outside the gold-coloured aesthetic on it the I'm not gonna say the whole name again the video card will share the same specifications as its brethren the Nitro+ rx 598 gigabyte and the Nitro+ 590 special edition lastly gigabyte seems to be planning a new motherboard in the form of its x4 70 or as gaming 7 Wi-Fi for a 50th anniversary releases as well so lots of AMD's stuff coming out most of these like the r7 2700 X are based on actually all these are based on existing products and the the question just remains what's happening to the 2700 X so for the 8086 K and how Ben did a bit and you end up with higher overclocking CPUs on average and that made them sort of interesting to work with so we'll keep an eye on the 2700 X limited edition one and probably buy one for testing hopefully these are especially Bend or higher clocks because that would make them a lot more interesting to work with so keep an eye on our channel for coverage of that if it ends up being interesting origin the best launcher in the space if you haven't opened to origin in a while now is probably a good time to do so or to uninstalled EA has patched a significant security flaw on the launcher so seriously if you haven't opened it in a while actually do open it enough to hit it researchers at underdog security found a vulnerability with an origins URL scheme and address using origin colon slash slash that could be used to trick users into running malicious code or pretty much anything an attacker wanted according to a statement to TechCrunch the exploit could potentially have been used to either run malicious code remotely or inject malicious links or emails John Reese paired with EA addressed the flaw and confirmed a patch so you can actually get rid of this just make sure you go and patch it and then this one might be a bit of a stretch but the rumor mill has been running with it Rajat Kaduri posted a photo in front of one of Samson's manufacturing facilities in Korea and as the adage and the tech world goes whatever Rajat Kaduri does on Twitter is news so what's happened now is I guess the jump that's been made is Raja works at intel on AXI graphics and on the future GP years Raja has at Samsung ergo samsung is making these GPUs so it's it's possible it's certainly possible Intel has pushed some of its fabrication off to other entities recently especially with the 40 nanometers shortage so this isn't an impossibility it's also not confirmed but it could be anything it could be meeting with Samsung because well actually couldn't be anything it could be a limited list of things relating to memory and silicon manufacturing but within that list it could be anything so could be meeting with Samsung for memory reasons may be memory support on the upcoming GPU or it could be something like fabrication and we're not going to run any further with the story that it's already been tortured online so let's leave that one there you can see the Twitter post if you want it's him standing in front of a statue and that's enough for 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