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everyone welcome back to another hardware news recap for the last week in hardware news we're talking about HBM two updates in the production schedule by Samsung today along with some additional news items on the Andy thread River risin boxes that were shown not really much to say there other than show them she's fine she jumped pen ha and the we've got news on a possible courser acquisition that was discussed a lot last week hasn't really gotten any new updates since then we'll be talking new SSDs gigabytes merging of their graphics and motherboard divisions and a couple of miscellaneous news items before that this is brought to you by EVGA s at CLC 280 liquid cooler for CPUs which we previously benchmarked and found to be a high performer given its relative silence the temperature output learn more about this $140 cooler at the link in the description below the first major news item is Samsung to HBM to production it looks like the boost in production for 2018 so by the first half of 2018 Samsung is anticipating that more than 50% of its HP m2 production in total will be moving to the new 8 gigabyte HBM 2 stacks so that will one be useful for what and these needs are and - it's just a shift in general global market as people are moving towards more utilization of HBM - on the front of gigabyte and their merger of the graphics and motherboard divisions gigabyte shipped about 1 million fewer motherboards in 2016 and 2015 900,000 to be exact and that number along with just changes in the business units in general means that the company is now merging its graphics and motherboard divisions asp overall is higher and revenue hiked up despite the 900 thousand fewer motherboard shipments in 2016 but the company is merging the divisions regardless and will be keeping the Auris of branding continuing on as a consumer targeted brand for gaming products this means you should expect more of the ors branding on motherboards and on video cards this next one is pretty straightforward and there's not really a lot to say Andy posted their box and box art for these Red River processors on Twitter that's all there is to say you can look it's you're curious but we know what it's going to ship in we don't know anything else about the box or anything like that but they're definitely at least going but somewhat back to the old tins if anyone remembers those the tins from the processor is prior to the high-end FX series we're part of the branding and the image of those high-end CPUs so looks like they're at least moving back towards that direction with thread Ripper which makes sense for a higher end product but of course it is more money spent on packaging that's just the trade you start to make though as an enthusiast when you buy high-end stuff the next part there's a possible Corsair semi acquisition we don't know the full details yet this was initially reported by Reuters techpowerup followed up and got some not fully validated or disclosed sources to talk further about what's going on but basically a Reuters said that coursers in talks with a company called Eagle tree capital and they are looking at a possible acquisition some in more than five hundred million dollars the initial report suggested that Corsair would be entirely purchased by Eagle tree capital but in follow up reporting done by techpowerup with their sources it seems that only the shares are owned by the Fransisco partners who currently hold the shares in Corsair would be the part that's up for sale to Eagle tree capital so fransisco partners currently holds a seventy five million dollar stake in the company at least at the time they bought it one would assume that Eagles you would pay more for that stake because the company has grown in value since that initial purchase and this is allegedly the only part of the company that's up for sale so it wouldn't be a full sale and it looks like the the current leadership would remain as is but we don't know any further details so as usual full grain of salt or shaker of salt in this case or bucket of salt with the news but that's kind of what's been floating around in rumors in the last week and the SSD news Seagate is returning to the SSD market with a new low-cost series of SSDs the Nitro one for one series will offer six models all SATA base and using TLC and the lowest cost to capacity ratio is in the 256 gigabyte models and is currently looking to be signed for 80 five dollars other capacities offered include 240 480 512 960 and 1024 gigabytes or 1 terabyte all drives are in the 2.5 inch form factor offer up to 300 terabytes of total bytes written and a 1.5 million MTBF rating Seagate has the six models with the marketed between performance endurance and cost-competitive capacities all drives come with a five-year warranty Western Digital blue series and SanDisk's ultra series of SSDs are also seen an update to the 3d BICS flash and will offer higher capacities up to one terabyte for Western Digital blue and 2 terabytes for SanDisk Ultra the new drives are said to be shipping but it is not known when retailers or if they have already will be receiving the new stock both the WD blue and SanDisk Ultra use identical hardware 64 layered TLT provided by SanDisk and a Marvel 88 SS 1034 controller the WD blue units will be offered in both 2.5 inch and m dot 2 options and SanDisk looks to only offer a 2.5 inch configuration as before both series of drives will operate via the SATA 6 gigabits per second interface prices for the Refresh WD blue and SanDisk Ultra start at $90 and $100 respectively with the craze surrounding m dot 2 cooling lately we can't seem to escape another company shipping another m2 cooler each week alpha cool is now adding 2 more to the mix so we've got the HDX 3 + H DX to the HDX 2 is a passive solution it will support 80 millimeter form factor m2 devices on a PCIe expansion card and then the HDX 3 will use a nickel plated copper water block and standard G quarter inch threaded fittings for its cooling so it fits into an open-loop HDX to is using a large aluminum heatsink and then just passive operation we need to look into this more because it seems people keep pushing these heat sinks and as we've said in the past you really just kind of want to cool the controller and leave everything else alone so it'll be interesting to see if endurance is hindered in any meaning away by cooling the flash with liquid because that really brings temperatures down a lot more than what they would be designed to operate at and with flash cooler isn't better with controllers that is the case though but either way also cools got some new lambda 2 SS the equal is coming out in miscellaneous news Arctic cooling is preparing for thread Ripper and they're priming their line of liquid freezer AOS for the tr4 socket the liquid freezer line of coolers all use a 12-volt water pump cover cold plates and radiators and sizes of 360 240 and 120 millimeters all radios come equipped with Arctic Cooling's f12 120 millimeter fanned the liquid freezer 360 offers a TDP of 300 watts while the 240 and 120 versions opportunity P is of 250 watts presently the liquid freezer 360 sells for $140 the 240 for $100 and 120 for $86 if you ever needed 16 fan headers on a motherboard Asus I suppose has you covered going forward the rog crosshair 6 extreme is ACS's next line of x 370 motherboards for the rise in CPUs this is not for thread ref remind you and the base unit of the crosshair 6 extreme includes 13 fan headers on the board they have an expansion card that gives you another three fitting the total up to 16 if you really needed that the board is also targeted pretty much entirely at overclocking enthusiasts and water cooling enthusiasts additionally it's got addressable LEDs and an RGB header 2 reinforced PCIe x16 slots which these days is kind of standard now and then the onboard inner 2.11 AC Wi-Fi with bluetooth support as well so that board is coming out at a price of about $350 starting in August just after the thread Ripper release Corsair introduced the new rmx white series extending a white hue to the company's RM 850 X 8 to the watch and 750 watt power supplies the PSU is our 80 plus gold certified fully modular and come with a 135 millimeter rifle bearing fan additionally the PSU to offer heavy duty productions as expected the mtbf is rated at 100,000 hours and there's a 10-year warranty attached the rmx white series will come with cable to individually sleeved with paracord and an assortment of cable combs the rmx y2 is 850 X is $170 while the servitude DX is $150 then as a final note this one is game news not hardware news but interesting to pay attention to given that the Starcraft remake is in the mix Blizzard as of this past week laid off its composer Russell Brauer best known for work in World of Warcraft Starcraft 2 overwatch the Diablo series and basically everything that they've worked on he announced via Facebook that he'd been laid off and said that his job was eliminated as part of a sounded decentralization initiative had to check my notes to make sure I got the corporate BS correct so a Blizzard has undertaken that initiative and as such as eliminated the job of composer for their main composers they've had for a while now and that it looks like he'll be doing freelance work for them in the future but that's probably the last we'll see of Russell brower's current full-time role at Blizzard so interesting news to make note of other than that check the article in the description below for the show notes for this show you can subscribe for more as always patreon.com slash scammers Nexus elves that directly or Gama's an extra squarespace.com to pick up a shirt like this one which is our new anniversary edition design thank you for watching I'll see you all next time you