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this week's Hardware news recap starts off with Intel who in a recent earnings call announced that the new kb lake architecture has begun shipment to OEMs and other business customers kb lake is intel's new 14 nanometer processor and will utilize a 200 series chipset the kb lake architecture isn't yet moving to retailers but will be entering volume production in the second half of 2016 right around when AMD Zen is scheduled for arrival in other earnings news md just posted its second-quarter 2016 results marking a strong recovery for the company's position AMD's 2016 second quarter earnings posted a revenue of 1.0 to seven billion a growth year-over-year from there 2015 second quarter of nine hundred and forty-two million versus last quarter AMD's operating loss has improved from 68 million to an eight million loss which looks like pennies in face of the company's recent earnings AMD's recovery is largely attributable to the 150 million dollar merger of their assembly test mark and pack a TMP group with nan tong fujitsu my for electronics and reduce losses are resultant of layoffs and other operating expense cuts Andy now must capitalize on its time with Polaris and Zen to continue their further improvement other industry news includes gr.3 steady price decline something which a non-tech recently dove into at gamers nexus we predicted some years ago that the ddr3 to ddr4 crossover to occur around 2016 and that seems to be about right prices are now at a new low with a gigabyte ddr3 kits available for less than thirty dollars if you're still trying to keep that ddr3 system alive and you want to buy some new Ram now is a pretty good time to do it it's also not a bad time to build a new Devil's Canyon pc as parts are relatively cheap and can be found cheaper than skylake but it depends on what you're trying to cobble together the tight necks was announced this week no not that the new Pascal tie connects what we're calling the Titan XP host a GP 102 GPU with 3584 cuda cores a start climb from the 2560 cuda cores of the GTX 1080 the GP 102 chip will likely host 28 sm across 6g pcs and it's known to run 12 gigabytes of G 5x within 480 gigabyte a second memory bandwidth for more depth on the Titan X check out our launch video or article linked below we've been liquid cooling most of the new GPUs lately and it looks like manufacturers are starting to catch up though their version of liquid cooling is a little more official fantex is one of those who've pony dup their GTX 1080 full coverage water block this block is made for inclusion with open loop liquid cooling systems and is not an all-in-one cooler the ph GB 1080 X is made of nickel plated copper and use it an acrylic surface to showcase the coolant channels LEDs can be inserted at your discretion and are positionable and up to three locations on the block the block supports LEDs up to one millimeter in diameter that block will be priced at a hundred and thirty dollars and that's it for this week's Hardware recap for sources and articles check the links in the description if you want to support us directly check out the patreon link and subscribe for more content like this from me Stevens gone here we go