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everyone welcome back to another hardware news recap for the last week this one is pretty dense so we have some rumors of Intel's graphics card potentially showing up in the next year we'll see if that happens also Z 390 chipset block diagram detailed spoiler alert pretty boring details and videos got some interesting revenue trends pointing towards mining income being somewhat significant and we also have data on what percentage of Nvidia's business is gaming income as well in case you're curious and thought that deep learning an AI had been taking over Nvidia's business printout gaming is still massive so we got all that a couple of more things for this week's news video before that this video is brought to you by I fix its brand new man 2 driver kit the iFixit Manta kit is a universal repair tool kit that includes 112 steel bits redesigned from the ground up with longer necks for four millimeter bits allowing more precision when working on components the $60 iFixit Manta kit has everything from pentalobe drivers to why drivers and standard bits learn more at the link in the description below first one is Intel so they could be showing a GPU at CES 2019 major word here good because this is basically a more or less weak to tweak town where sweet town has claims that some of their sources close to the company note that there is a possibility of having a product in somewhat of a demo state by the end of this year or early next year looking at CES for that timeline whether or not that happens we really can't say right now tweek town's been accurate sometimes in inaccurate other times a thoroughly so I wouldn't bring a salt for now but it does look like Intel might have something to show that does seem like an awfully aggressive timeline for a graphics card showing from Intel if you're kind of new to this they recently hired Roger Kaduri former RTG chief at AMD Radeon technologies group they hired Chris hook who was the marketing director over there and they've brought over some other talent as well so we'll see what happens but that's the rumor for this week anyway and additional Intel news Intel's e3 90 chipset block diagram has been detailed now so this is pretty simple if we put up a Z 319 X 2 z 370 it's kind of like spot the difference basically Intel's are adding wireless AC 802 dot 11 support to the chipset specifically with Bluetooth 5 added to the chipset as well that's the primary difference between them so you don't necessarily need the motherboard to integrate different chips for it now it can run off the chipset other than that there's an Intel wireless AC adapter on the chipset and four more USB 3.1 ports and that's it so that's the z3 90 block diagram now the motherboards themselves the platform can still have other differences like power delivery for 8-core for example but the chipset looks like it's basically the same thing that we already know is e3 70 next news item Nvidia and their revenue so and videos the latest quarterly earnings it looks positive overall with a year-over-year revenue increase of 66% for record quarterly revenue but had one standout item on the listing cryptocurrency mining GPU sales the company tracked 289 million dollars in revenue from GPU cryptocurrency mining sales it's a little bit nebulous how this is defined because if you are an individual who say buying ten GPUs on new AG that are only used for mining it's kind of hard to know how they differentiate that versus gaming revenue where perhaps the 300 million in cryptocurrency revenue is from - exhales - mining companies or something like that so a little hard to know and kind of nebulous but their numbers 289 million right now it kind of goes back to the gold rush days where the people making most of the money were the ones selling the pickaxes in this case the GPUs most notably and video breaks down its market platform revenues as on a table that we've got the company has gaming revenue listed as the greatest overall still at one point seven billion dollars constituting 53 point seven percent of their total business revenue that's impressive considering the company's tremendous efforts in professional spaces data center generated at 701 million dollars or 22% of revenue with OEMs automotive and a pro-v filling in the rest gaming is still huge here even though mining generated 289 million directly for Nvidia and not counting whether cards were tracked for gaming sales despite Muses and mining machines it looks like gaming is to learn more volume overall in other news for the same reports and video reported at gross and increase from 9.4% to sixty four point five percent year-over-year so operating expenses increased by about two hundred million dollars which isn't a ton considering their operating income increase by that seven hundred forty million dollars he's altering it in that income of one point two billion for the quarter gross revenue of three point two billion for the quarter and then in nvidia stock news analysts are projecting that future down trends in cryptocurrency hot topic could affect the company's price targets so as Reuters acutely tries to explain the situation let's just quote them here gamers used GPUs to play high quality video games we're on track so far but Nvidia's graphics cards are also used by cryptocurrency miners to you quote build machines to solve the complex math puzzles that are in digital currencies such as the etherium and Bitcoin almost sounds like like some kind of Pavlovian thing I guess maybe it is so that's what they're saying analysts project that price targets are now between to 74 and $316 pending noting that data center sales were down which was not a positive but cryptocurrency more or less picked up the difference and then also noting that if cryptocurrency remains volatile and goes down there's concern that anybody will be down overall but Nvidia's response that was that channel prices for our GPUs are beginning to normalize allowing gamers who had been priced out of the market last quarter to get their hands on a new geforce card at a reasonable price so basically they're saying the reduction in potential cryptocurrency demand would allow for an increase in gaming demand thus theoretically offsetting it next one rise in pro AP use AMD this week announced its rise in pro processors in the 2000 series including aps horizon pro most notably we wanted to immediately point out that AMD told select press partners not us that it's pro series would be better Bend than even the enthusiast part so if that's accurate and you can overclock these things then buying one of those would theoretically give you better overclocking Headroom and then the enthusiast parts technically speaking the rise in pro processors on paper don't look a whole lot different from the desktop processors the 24 hour G for example is still running four cores a thread still 9 gigahertz boost and it's not really any different than the 24 energy normal processor the same is true for most the other pro chips other than a few guarantees like 18 months of software stability 2 years of market availability of the pro processors 3 years of warranty and andis pushing an angle trying to establish that it's CPUs are no harder to deploy in a business environment and an Intel CPU which of course is probably accurate and other primary differences include mostly security features so those are the main differentiators than the alleged binning difference as well if you're building a gaming machine though go with the cheaper option probably get desktop next one net neutrality was in the news again in the past few weeks the push to restore net neutrality rules put into place under the previous administration has gained traction this week with Democrats in the Senate filing a petition to force a vote on the repeal of the FCC's new rules enacted by a GPI current FCC Chairman the congressional review act is the exact tool that Congress and a gpi's FCC used to reverse the Obama era regulations that is the 2015 open Internet order that banned blocking content throttling paid prioritization by ISPs and place ISPs honor title to classification however Democratic senators have used the CRA to force a vote and potentially remove the recent FCC rules voted for in December the measure is something of a longshot as it would have to pass both the house and be signed by the president regardless the effort is still noteworthy and has gained support of many tech companies mostly internet-based including Reddit github tumblr Etsy Netflix and many other ones currently the resolution has 50 senators supporting it 48 Democrats two Republicans the 50 senators are looking for a possible 51st senator to pledge their support what's more forcing a vote would more or less require everyone to stand up and be counted so to speak and senators will either be for net neutrality or against it with potential implications for future elections the CRA is currently considered to be the best hope for you storing previous popular net neutrality rules but we'll have to keep an eye on it and that's only included not to be political but because it's internet and Technology discussion next one antics a high current gamer bronze power supply line and I returned to Paris flies recently with their high current gamer line the gold PSU specifically and they've added two new 80 plus bronze certified models to that lineup the hcg 850 and the hcg 750 in the wattage both are fully modular used Japanese capacitors and offer dual ball bearing fans new power supplies are 90 and 100 dollars respectively with a five-year warranty Corsair announced two new cases this past week the spec Omega RGB which we previously looked at at CES I believe and the Obsidian 1000 d the former is mostly not noteworthy it's this speck of omega it's a spec alpha basically except RGB ish and we showed that at CES anyway 1000 he is a super tower aimed at anyone who wants to systems operating in tandem under one roof basically that's the idea of the 1000 d it's based loosely and actually primarily off of the design from the concept slate that we saw at Computex last year and offers 18 fan mounts support for up to 400 for 80 meter radiators telescoping radiators was actually really cool by the way not particularly this is a halo product case it's meant to get at ang it's not particularly practical or affordable but the telescoping radiator supports actually really cool integrating commander pro and hinge tempered glass doors on both sides it's a $500 case for the 1000 d retailers currently show it out of stock next Intel is requesting an extension for inspector ng flaws pass this is when we reported on last week's episode the spectra and G flaws are different from the spectra they are new attack factors so it was recently revealed that the Intel chips are vulnerable to eight additional Spectre variants dubbed spectra next generation hence ng Intel initially plans rollout of patch from a seventh but has requested an extension on that timeline and I was planning on patching the new flaws with two waves of updates the first ones aimed at medium risk flaws and will roll out July 10th and the second patch is for high-risk flaws isn't it's not due until August 14th Microsoft is purportedly also working on OS level patches and unlike CTS labs and their chaos the German computer magazine heis IDE and their researchers appear to be working with Intel according to a normal and responsible procedure that is not the flaws of the public until the vendors have been given a reasonable amount of time to address those concerns and develop mitigations so that's the newest respector meltdown lately ek water blocks releasing the hard tubing water cooling kits so ek is put together some new kits this time offering hard tubing over the soft tubing normally provided and seen on their kits the kits will include the ek supremacy MX at Universal CPU block an ek at cool stream ste Radiator 240 or 360 ek Vardar f3 at 120 fans an e KX re s 100 SP CMS PWM it's a pump in reservoir combo and also cryo fuel which is just their concentrate that you add to the distilled water oh and also six 12 millimeter g1 1/4 tubing compression fittings and 4 or 500 millimeter lon hard tubes included as well so those kids $280 for the HT 243 and $10 for the HT 3 60 gigabytes next and they're entering the SSD market so they decided to jump to the SSD market making gigabyte one of the few non memory makers to offer a memory based products by which we meet we don't mean memory suppliers just like not Kingston not course or any of that so it's a new person to the business gigabyte plans to offer an assortment of products from nvme drives to use standard SATA SSDs with nvme drives under ARS branding and for the time being is offering to say to the base drive is targeting entry level gaming machines the UD pro series that will see their first two models come the form of 256 and 512 configurations with Faison and Toshiba handling the controller and 3d TLC and respectively there's nothing especially remarkable about the drives gigabyte will likely lean on competitive pricing and bundling options to that effects that I versifying their portfolio with storage products good gave gigabyte options for bundling with motherboards and graphics cards the new drives will cost $70 with two three six gigabyte model and 120 for the 512 gigabyte model finally hardware sales for the week it's getting better so 10 so TTI's on the main ones to point out we had a news article that ran on the site didn't go on the YouTube channel that basically was titled something to the effect of Nvidia releases press release about two-year old graphics cards being available MSRP and we appreciated their press release because I don't keep daily tabs on the prizes so yes it's true they are falling down in price to about what they should be so the 1080 is around where it was when it launched two years ago it's something and the tens how many Ti is down to five hundred dollars ish it's five hundred five twenty which is not horrible All Things Considered the last few months so there's an e BGA 1070 TI at $500 will link it in the description below there's an msi 1070 TI also available between 500 520 depending on what you're looking at obviously prices can change all that stuff and then a thread Ripper 1950 ax which is a processor we highly recommend for the obviously the use cases you want it for is down to eight hundred eighty dollars not the best price it's ever been but it's still pretty good so if you really need it then we can recommend it it's just not everyone needs that kind of power so that's it for the week as always subscribe for more go to patreon.com/scishow cameras and axes tops out directly and stored on cameras nexus net let's pick up one of our mod mats or one of our very cool 3d logo laser engraves to tear down crystals which is just a solid piece of glass as this one back here weighs about three pounds we considered actually putting it up here but I was worried about it falling on my head so that would be bad although get a lot of views maybe we should do that check back next time I'll see you all that