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welcome back to another hardware news recap for the last week for this one we're talking sadly primarily about CPU shortages and it's sad because typically end of the year we start seeing things like oversupply and trying to get rid of it thereby driving down the prices but that is not necessarily the case this year for at least fourth quarter of 2018 also talking about SK Hynix and ddr5 memory some of the first to market potentially and apples t to chip and its attempt to completely port your ability to repair products not too much of a surprise keyboard mouse support on consoles and rx5 90s before that this video is brought to you by iy power and the rush delivery to you program the fresh RT y approach gets high-end gaming pcs shipped the same day you order them and it's also one of the only places you can get a 9900 k for a reasonable price right now systems include the rdy enthusiast level gaming pc with a 20 80 TI 900k and 16 gigabytes of 32 hundred megahertz memory available with same-day shipping or pick up locally these systems are built by people who are experienced builders and component choice that makes sense learn more at the link in the description below quick update for those of you who missed our live stream we just restocked the two-tone Raglan hoodie so if you wanted a lightweight hoodie from us those are now back in stock in all sizes so asus is CEO on Intel CPU shortage just as an interesting one for a couple of weeks actually couple of months now we've been talking about 14 nanometer shortages as intel has faced difficulties ramping as a 10 nanometer production and this means that they've done things as far as for example reviving some old 22 nanometer facilities and converting some chipset designs over to 22 nanometer even for modern chipsets and these are primarily for B series chipsets in that instance or H series so the CPA shortage is is absolutely a very real difficulty for Intel right now they've even started outsourcing some of their cpu production to TSM C as we reported a couple of weeks ago but Asus is CEO Jerry Shen has stated that the company has now itself seen Intel CPU shortages affecting them firsthand so sheddin points to the DIY and client sector in particular and notes that he expects sales to remain a flat or ASIS for the end of the year largely resultant of the CPU shortage that should extend through a second quarter of 2019 according to Jerry chené chené also mentioned the growing competition in the notebook sector now as well as the us-china trade war having an adverse effect on a CSIS operational visibility which according to Shen is down 20% for the fourth quarter of 2018 this is a steep decline from an excess of 50% in previous years for the same quarter China also said that Asus expects PC shipments remained flat throughout the rest of the fourth quarter and that's despite normal holiday demand which is obviously quite high typically on the same note Intel is reportedly backing off CPU DIY sales for the end of the year for fourth quarter 2018 and that is instead to focus on system integrator om partners notebooks and server partners where margins are a bit higher and demand to study so digitize reports that Intel may reduce DIY retail availability of CPUs by about 2 million units bringing them down to about 6 million units total for the end for fourth quarter 2018 and is instead of shifting those units to other segments again notebook servers sis OMS not DIY techpowerup additionally reported on this story noting that Intel is boosting its capex to increase its production capabilities in some regions like Malaysia for example and that would expand its fabrication plans although that change is obviously not immediate and Intel's capex boost would focus on expanding notebook and pre-built markets primarily SK Hynix announced this week that they've completed the industry's first ddr5 JEDEC compliant DRAM chip and these new chips will offer a capacity of 16 Giga bits that's that's bits just to be really clear there and a 5200 mega transfer per second per pin speed the DRAM also operated at one point one volts reduced from a typical ddr4 voltages of about 1.2 volts and is fabricated on SK Hynix is 10 nanometer process note hynek's expects its future ddr5 chip slated for later production for 2020 volume production to support higher capacities and transfer rates up to 6400 mega transfers per second per and in addition to the memory chip hynek's is working on its first ddr5 our dim or rdimm the new DIMM modules will offer bandwidth of 41.6 in gigabytes per second which is noteworthy because ddr4 with extreme overclocking and better cooling peaks at around that level so there's your comparison the design of the new dims will use 288 pins across a curved connector and that's to both reduce insertion force and avoid accidental installation into ddr4 slots which would be suboptimal especially given the fact that it shouldn't fit there so that's that's primarily a human factor is changed make sure that it has a different form factor and isn't used in the places it shouldn't be apples t2 chip this is this is a good one so the t2 is a coprocessor focus on security but it's not just to any kind of security it's a special kind of security the kind designed to secure apples margins and revenue because every time your water sensors get tripped from high humidity Apple wants to make sure you can't just replace things and keep the laptop functional so this is it's an interesting one the the t2 is primary functions are things like processing touch ID data or storing cryptographic keys for secure boot things like handling to Siri requests protecting the microphone from remote access legitimate things but it also combines several discreet controllers like the SSD and audio controllers and further the t2 chip acts as a tool to limit third-party repairs according to internal Apple documents so they're legitimate the t2 equipped Mac's will require specialized software known as AST 2 and that's Apple service toolkit - it's only distributed to Apple stores and authorized a STS and that's already a really strict program and if certain parts are in place the TT chip detects a repair attempt and then tries to validate that repair so without the ast2 software the verification process can't be completed that's the trick here and the software requires also an internet connection making it more difficult to trick the T to chip can't validate a repair and without ast2 and if it does not then validate the repair it will render the device useless making it inoperable by refusing to allow booting of the device however Adam ochem from I fix it was able to replace the logic board as they call it the display and update Mac OS to Mojave without using the ast 2 software and a blog post that I fix it Oh cam speculates on why this is so why is Apple doing this he writes it could simply be a mechanism for tracking parts used by their authorized network to check quality or replacement rates it's possible that units with swapped parts may operate normally but still report a failure in Apple diagnostic tests for having quote unauthorized components installed much like earlier units did for earlier versions of AST for third-party hard drives SSDs or RAM and batteries if it's not then we have a problem making part swaps dependent on secret software would be a customer hostile move it would impact people that don't live near and a ASP can't afford to go to one don't have time to mail their device or like to use their computer longer than five years the timeframe that Apple supports their hardware except where legally required otherwise third-party repair shops which cater to the aforementioned groups already struggled to keep up with apple's shenanigans Oakham concludes and as Oakham mentions in the blog post DIY repair seems to be intact for now but the teeth you chip is something that we need to all keep an eye on so it's it's threatening at best to your ability to repair parts and this is a it's it's a slow stripping away of consumers abilities to maintain their devices this is not something that happens overnight Apple has been working on building its its ability to replace devices only internally or while high mean if you watch any of Lewis Crossman's videos you'll see that most attempted service repairs do end up and just buying a new computer and Apple wants to keep that going clearly so it's a very slow stripping away of those rights of the consumer to maintain the device and keep it going I mean clearly we've got a table full of tools actually several from iFixit and taking apart components so clearly we're fans of the to open things work on them fix them and keep them going and and this is a bit concerning because what Apple does if you don't like Apple doesn't really matter what Apple does extends to the rest of the technology industry look at what NVIDIA has been doing lately with some of its designs so Apple could further lock down Mac's new devices with software updates that would render incomplete in quotes repairs null and void and make the devices inoperable it would force users to go to an Apple store and at that point if they see if it's been modified by someone who is into them who knows what happens so Apple has a long history of not supporting third-party repairs and an aggressive stance against the right to repair in general and if you do like this topic we strongly encourage watching some of Lois Rossum's videos on it he is he's personally affected on this one so this one's pretty quick because we already covered it and Vidya has addressed some issues with defective r-tx twenty series cards this is it it leaves a lot to be desired so we already did our content piece on the over ten cards that we received from viewers that were defective or somehow not working bsod is for example we did the piece on that we talked through all the the primary points that we think the problem is not like thermals for example and then speculate on a few things that we have some level of confidence that it could be like in silicon issues of the memory or GPU or component level manufacturing issues in terms of mounting the devices to the PCBs and one thing we didn't do I don't think was show the forum post by Nvidia in that content and Nvidia's forum post said that quote limited test escapes I think they're there to break it out it's ties make a break for it a limited test escapes from early boards it caused the issues some customers have experienced with our DX twenty atti founders edition cards specifically naming efi there although some board partners did have their own artifacting issues they didn't often seem to be the exact same thing so I mean in the very least its acknowledgement of the issue if you had the issue it's real and video knows it's real and they'll replace the part for you we have heard from some people that they've had to wait several weeks - a month for replacement because of I suppose supply to some extent and also just the RMA process in general but you can visit an video.com slash support to get support from Nvidia steam and they say quote we stand ready to help any customers who are experiencing problems and then of course you can check our video on this subject if you wanna learn more about all the various things we've done with the defective twenty ATT eyes in the last couple weeks keyboard and mouse support for the Xbox one up next so with the most recent November update Microsoft's Xbox one consoles will now officially offer keyboard mass support you could have done this already kind of but now it's official and with a handful games already supporting the peripherals while most modern USB keyboards and mice will work Microsoft is currently working with a razor to bring specific hardware to market and points to CES in January for more news on the subject as an aside Coursera has announced that they are attempting to be among the first in licensed hardware partners with Microsoft as such Coursera announced compatibility for their keyboards and mice with the Xbox one consoles of course they're also site's future projects with Microsoft such as integration of Microsoft's mixer and Corsairs recently acquired al gato so that could be pretty interesting news for future generations potentially rx 590 is next so this one we're still working on ours it's a this week was busy with all the other stuff going on CPUs and GPUs primarily so we're still working on ours we'll have a review up for you soon if it's not already up but probably another day or so from the time of this video going up and after weeks of rumors and conjecture just to kind of close this one out power color and XFX get to claim first just like the youtube comment or what their rx 590 cards the rx 590 is based on Polaris 30 which is a another revision of the Polaris architecture that you saw with the RX for 80 then the rx 580 now there are x5 90 so it's it's a derivative of Polaris 10 Polaris 30 is the product of Global Foundries 12 nanometer FinFET process and that means that in general you get for example a higher frequency sustained at a given voltage than previously where you might be able to hit the same frequencies but require more voltage and so power efficiency at reasonable clocks is improved but really what's happening is the clocks are being boosted and power efficiency isn't is is suffering for it but you'll see some of that in our review so it's a RiRi fresh of the arts 480 it's effectively a 580 this is a quote from a of the entire call with them it is functionally a 580 with higher clocks if you're interested in the 598 now that doesn't mean it's bad it just means that it's kind of boring from an architecture standpoint because nothing's changed but as a product it might be completely viable will see in our review and of course look at its value proposition versus things like the time 60 which at this point is also a bit lawn on the tooth and getting not not interested in a bit old but it will be replaced probably soon with maybe a gtx 2060 or something like that we don't have an official name yet so the RX 590 doesn't change much but it's a bit faster highlighted specs here are going to be the boost and base clocks of 1496 megahertz in 1545 megahertz and a 225 watt TDP and by this time we have our teardown on lines if you want to check that out it is up for the XFX Fatboy as they call it and that's it for this week's hardware news so we'll have a lot of sales coverage next week we're gonna have a lot of end-of-year best of one of our favorite series series is series to do or a favorites needs to do end of year round ups of things like best air flow cases best CPUs best all that stuff so we're working on it we have some really fun coverage recapping the whole year of reviews that we've done and make sure you subscribe for that you can go to store documents access net speak with sure it like this one one of 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