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welcome back to another hardware news recap talking about industry and hardware news for last week this one has a lot of AMD topics in it rx beta and Red River were a focus of attention as we traveled out to California for a and DS event but they're also some other interesting Moving's in the industry like Corsair and their partial acquisition the AMD quarter 2 financials the biggest chip maker changing over to Samsung a couple of other news topics for the week before getting to that this content is brought to you by the Thermaltake flow RGB closed-loop liquid cooler which is a 360 millimeter radiator plus 3 120 fans that are RGB illuminated the thern will take it ring fans at that this is a 4.5 done a stack pump which is one of the faster pumps you can learn more at the link in the description below let's start out with some quick less formal news this is stuff that we've either kind of thought about release Lee mentioned but haven't formally put out in a video the first one is our X Vega and it's mining capacity we independently confirm some of the rumors that were going on haven't tested it mind you but from what we've heard from our sources in the industry it does sound like in fact our X Vega I'm not clear on if it's 56 or 64 will be confirmed that somewhere around 70 mega hashes per second for mining now I think that's about 2x what the RX 500 series does cap side out with the 580 we are not mining experts feel free to discuss it below if you want to talk about the implications of that but I thought I'd put it out there that in the very least that's what we've heard from sources haven't confirmed it in testing ourselves but that's what we've heard so that does sound like it is accurate if you saw those rumors earlier another note here a be partner cards for Vega 64 should be available in September or very late August but it does look like September for most of them with reference cards of course shipping much sooner August 14th I believe is the officially confirmed release date that's at least the one we've seen talked about online publicly so look at my goggles 14th reference and then September for a IV partner models for the 64 and then our Vega 56 reference and therefore a IV partner models will be shipping in September as well so 56 comes a bit later and probably won't be in the first review cycle that we're not clear on that yet finally on the road two more notes here one is the Vega many we didn't mention this in any of our coverage because it was shown surprise last minute at the AMD staged event at their California gathering but the RX Vega many was given to Tim Sweeney the epic game CEO and it's basically it was a single fan looks like 90 to 100 millimeter Vega card and we're not sure if it was even real or who was a prop but either way it was a reference or an allusion to and these plans for rx Vega in the future which would theoretically include a mini model but we haven't heard anything actually definitive on if there is a functional one if it's coming out with the September launches or what the deal is but there will be one it seems like so thought we'd let you know final note here coin mining so back to the opening topic Rajic dory at the event said on stage to two media she said many of you asked why we're so good at coin mining it resides in the sort of brackets here the way we are open this is not something that we planned it's what the open software approach does referring to how the drivers are designed and firmware it's designed and things like that later discussion at follow-up meetings revolved around the packs there's bundle packs and how they're trying to limit purchases from miners and get some more cards into hands with gamers now the challenge here is there's no reason that you as a miner couldn't just still buy the standalone card and screw the pack what do you care but the way to bypass that would be allocating a specific amount of cards to the packs or the bundles so if Andy has the leverage to go to New Ager Amazon or whomever and say you must allocate 20% 50% whatever of your RX Vega allocation to these bundles meaning that that amount has to be sold alongside the discount packages at the marked up price of $100 price premium so the challenge here again is one what miners don't seem well if if they're really going to be that good at mining it doesn't seem like miners would care about buying for an extra hundred dollars and just not using the discounts like what do they care this you're not forced to buy other hardware with those discounts they're just discount you pay $100 for them so you're paying an extra hundred dollars to get $100 off of specific to find that rise in seven 1700 X 1800 X and specific X 370 motherboards and you're paying that extra hundred dollars same amount to get the two hundred dollar discount on samsung displays but there's nothing that says you have to use them so I don't know that it'll stop miners who $100 to them is like compared to there's a 2x mark up they're paying on 500 G's cards that really doesn't seem like such a bad deal just overpay by a hundred bucks so I don't know if it'll work it's not really sure back in general I'm not really sure if they'll work they have a lot of limitations that make them kind of odd but it seems like Andy's trying at least that's what they told us and other media that they do want more gamers to get their hands on the Vega cards then Polaris has been the past few months so we'll see if they can find a way to do that really doesn't seem like good solution other than retailers doing something like saying limited one or two per customer at which point I don't know I don't really believe that someone like Newegg would necessarily do that unless they're forced to because new AG seems like the type that they just be like we just need to sell the cards we don't care who they go to and why would they they're just retailing so I don't know it's a really difficult challenge Andy is in a difficult spot with Vega launching ignoring performance entirely the mining aspect of things really throws a wrench in what we know from traditional GP launches this isn't normally going on in the middle of something like a launch with a card that is somewhat confirmed to be a good mind device so very interesting but I will have to wait and see for the rest anyway moving on to industry news so there's big one coarser confirmed its acquisition at least partial acquisition by Eagle tree capital who paid five hundred twenty five million dollars to buy out the stake that Francisco Partners previously held we talked about this in one of the previous news episodes which it was a rumor at the time but now obviously confirmed so Francisco partners and minority shareholders have been bought out for five hundred plus million dollars and appalled the founder and CEO and other upper management will remain in place at course they're from what the statements have said and things should more or less remain functioning as is at least that's what they're saying right now this also kind of loosely mirrors razors plans to go public razor was trying to raise six hundred million dollars to bid aggressively on growth opportunities and expansion so it looks like they're both kind of doing this right now but the corset rumor did actually become true for the next one Andy revealed it's quarter to 2017 fiscal results which Rison was shown to help Andy get back into profitability at least somewhat last weekend the announced their second quarter fiscal results the numbers are hopeful overall Andy's revenue was up nineteen percent year-over-year al Viet net income suffered a loss of sixteen million but that's a far improvement over last quarter where ahem D saw loss of seventy three million four quarter three Andy's expected a 23 percent increase compared to this quarter which should help their bottom line overall and so that is owed to the success of Rison and AMD is now creeping back towards being profitable again 16 million more is what we were seeing previously quarter three should allow the impact of thread Ripper epic and rx Vega to soak a bit which round out Andy's a sale on the market segments for this year and then the SOC business is still being bolstered by forthcoming launches like the Xbox one X so and you've got some room to move around still plus we'll see how it looks when the quarter three and four results are posted and this one's kind of interesting so Intel for the last twenty or so years has been the single largest silicon manufacturer on the planet and now with Samsung continuing to grow with the phone market booming the way it is Samsung has actually overtaken Intel for the first time in about 20 years and they are now doing quarterly earnings of fifteen point eight billion against intel's fourteen point eight billion for quarterly earnings and the shot in the arms of samsung's coffers is largely due to demand for nand which as you all know pretty high right now given the prices of SSDs and ram things like that so the mad Fernand for DRAM and phones computer still tablets laptops basically everything medical devices means that Samsung is growing rapidly and they are doing well despite the global supply constraints in those markets so only serves to drive up prices a bit in DRAM and SSD areas right now hopefully comes down but doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon and ultimately looks like Intel is going to be trailing Samsung for the remainder of the year so Samsung getting bigger if they weren't big enough already with selling the home appliances washers dryers solid-state drives phones everything else yeah so fifteen point eight billion quarterly again ten times fifteen billion praevia growth the next one here fan tax has prob'ly curtain on prices and availability finally for the pair of cases that they showed at Computex earlier this year both are tall cases built with aluminum and tempered glass the evolved and evolved shift X will be available in August for $110 and $160 respectively also in case news here last week silverstone announced their latest small form-factor case the RBZ 0-3 which resembles something akin to a console it's loosely based on the previous rvz 0-1 the new chassis has updates to styling and includes RGB lighting which silverstone talked to us about at combi tactically we weren't sure at the time but i guess the man got the best of them the RBZ 0-3 supports many DTX and ITX motherboards and the ATX power supply three 120-millimeter fans two expansion slots a couple of other things you'd expect and GV is up to 330 millimetres in length it's been offered in Europe already u.s. prices and availability will be coming soon the final new product to talk about is the OCZ TR 200 from Toshiba which is an entry-level SSD and the company's first two use the BICS flash or bit cost scalable flash based and and the new Sol replaced the previous TR 150 comes in capacities of 240 and 960 gigabytes of phone in between the drivers come with a three-year warranty and advertise a - 40 terabytes written in total endurance rating that's all on a SATA 6 gigabits per second interface according to Toshiba the TR 200 series will be aimed at entry level system builders and first-time upgrades from hard drives availability expected this fall with no word on pricing yet the last one here of no it is an VIII and yesterday back there's a lot of an z news this week given that they just did their event but they're now offering their race coolers to retail so that's actually pretty interesting the race cooler previously was only available in bundles with the 1700 or 1800 act we paid the extra money to get it and now it will be shipping for $60 separately through retailers and it's compatible with AM 4 + 3 + + FM 2 motherboards when the rates coolers originally shipped the original original one from the FX series we actually praised them for stepping aside from what the usual stock cooler performance was I eat bad and making something that was pretty good usable and didn't actually require replacing now of course you could always do better in a box cooler I'm going to charge you so much after all but we liked the original race on the FX series and it's not been bad on the rise in series again you do better but considering what the performance is out of box it's a good way to save money if you don't wanna buy something extra the race itself though is now available separately at $60 it's kind of hard to say whether there's actually value there versus buying an aftermarket solution those will probably be better but if you want the Andy branding and I think they have an RGB LED on there as well and you can grab the Wraiths max so that's out there now I think that pretty much wraps it for this week there are a couple of other small announcements like from Razer and rocket with new headsets but we've got all the big ones so as always you can find more information on 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