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everyone welcome back to another heartburn news recap for the last week our leading story Intel qualifying ten nanometer CPUs that's actually a big one rise in three and the thirty two hundred G allegedly deleted and shown shadow hammer the is involved malware hammering at least six more victims of note and 50th anniversary AMD product announcements continue along with several other news items before that this video is brought to you by MSI's RT x 2070 gaming z 8 gigabyte card the RT x 27 t gaming z uses MSI's dual fan design with large blades which we've previously tested to have them on the best noise normalised thermal results in the class MSI is 27 t gaming Z has a fat heatsink furthering the focus on reduced noise levels by allowing the fans to spend slower RGB LEDs naturally are abundant on the card but can be blacked out to match the carbon and blackout shroud learn more at the link in the description below quick GN note first this shirt the one I'm wearing has been restocked on the store not not literally this one it's gross I've been working all day but the blueprint shirt is back on story I came from Texas Donna if you've wanted one we have finally restocked them thank you for your patience you can pick them up there and they'll ship immediately Intel qualifying 10 nanometer CPUs or intel has acknowledged that is 10 nanometer process is going through qualification it did this in its earnings call that was just held as of filming yesterday and it indicates that the year-end release for ice Lake you CPUs should actually be realized these 10 nanometer chips will land in portable devices like notebooks and debut the long-awaited launch of ten nanometer products by Intel technically there's been one kind of on the market but no one talks about it until I anticipates sale and shipment of 10 nanometer CPUs for notebooks in third quarter of 2019 with market availability for consumers at B us in fourth quarter of 2019 so in theory just in time for the important holiday consumerism season we previously spoke about sunny Cove with David Cantor the expert analyst who has joined us several times and if you'd like to see what sunny Co kind of is at the top level it was presented well it wasn't that time it was an architecture discussion at the level it was presented to us and around December of last year we do have that video on the channel of course will link it up there somewhere and this will feature Intel's more powerful I GP critically it will also have in silicon mitigations respecter and meltdown so that's another important point and power consumption improvements along with process changes in general so all of that is coming to the ten nanometer parts that are finally getting qualified and presumably shipping it's just that it's not the desktop part that all of us want to see the Vizia space that will presumably follow the notebook part though so we'll keep an eye out for that on all of this Intel CEO Bob Swann stated the following in an earnings call on the ten nanometer process technology fronts our teams executed well in quarter one and our velocity is increasing we remain on track to have volume clients systems on shelves for the holiday selling season and over the past four months the organization drove a nearly 2x improvement in the rate at which ten nanometer products move through our factories so there's your update on Intel ten nanometer I just really want it to come to desktop at some point so we have something new to play with but rise in three or well rise in 3000 series will be coming out soon so we'll get something there and the Rison 330 200 G D lid shows solder Tim or a solder interface and more overclocking Headroom in theory so this was done on chip Hal and a couple of other sites in the West picked it up like Tom's hardware and AMD news is the company is at forthcoming 3000 series AP use the report via chip Hal shows that a prominent forum member has managed to deal it arise in three 3200 G the D LED process was evidently pretty surprising as the user purportedly found the horizon 330 200 G APU now uses solder Tim between the die and the IHS after dissecting both the 3200 G and last generations 2200 G the user noted die sizes are the same as is the core count and Cashel almond what appears to be different aside from a soldered IHS is the overclocking prowess of the new chips we actually did D lid the 2200 and the 2400 G previously in fact we did an additional test on it and ran an IHS that was just copper with new nickel plating it was from rocket cool ran some thermal tests with that so and liquid metal by the way so there were improvements there's just there's such low-power parts they've not needed solder and the thermal pace is just fine but we're not going to complain about the addition of solder if it improves the product so according to the users overclocking tests and keeping in mind this product doesn't officially exist yet the horizon 3 3200 G and rise in 530 400 G allegedly yielded 300 megahertz and 320 megahertz overclocks respectively at the stock one point three eight volts at least the stock one point three eight volts that was running on that motherboard what's more of the chips didn't run any hotter than their 2000 series counterparts hitting 76 degrees Celsius at full load but we have no idea what the tests and conditions were we don't know how will they control the environment things like that so that number is of limited usefulness because temperature is not a 3dmark score but it's promising or at least makes logical sense anyway given what we know so it's hard to draw any meaningful conclusions here from such a small sample size but and these refined silicon and optimized Zen plasters and two architectures the 3000 series ApS are rumored presently to use both should certainly yield some Headroom so no word on when the chips are supposed to launch but Kombi tax is around the corner and he is hosting a keynote there and that would probably make sense as a launch time it's as good a place as any to make an announcement moving on shadow hammer hit at least six more victims as it turns out asus was not the only company affected by operation shadow hammer as the Kaspersky security team found in one of our previous news videos we talked about this the asus software was vulnerable to this attack it's since been patched it's mostly for notebooks but ever since this security researchers have come across multiple malware samples leveraging both the similar algorithms and legitimate digital tickets akin to the ACS attack all told there are six additional companies that appear to have been attacked in a similar fashion to issues of those six researchers only divulged three electronics extreme innovative extremists that's kind of a rough name and Zepeda the other three companies compromised but not yet identified our quote another video game company quote a conglomerate holding company and a pharmaceutical company all in South Korea and presumably these have a wider reach and might be getting some private contact before it's publicly disclosed for sake of securing the issue before it can be exploited in the case of the video game companies that were disclosed that be electronics extreme ends a pedo hackers are able to inject malicious code and payloads aimed at infecting systems and then the trojan eyes games can begin gathering information like user names IP addresses MAC addresses computer settings operating system information and whatever else they have access to shadow hammer and shadow pad are becoming a very high-profile supply chain attack and it may not be over yet researchers noted that quote how many more companies are compromised out there is not known what is known is that shadow pad succeeded in backdooring developer tools and one way or another injected malicious code and to digitally sign the binaries subverting trust in this powerful defense mechanism so far the count is at seven last week we reported on and these special edition Rison 720 700 X processor to be unveiled for its 50th anniversary coming up along with some partner launches like sapphires card and gigabytes motherboard for the 50th edition or 50th anniversary launches and while the chip is all but officially confirmed new leaks suggest that there may not be any special bidding or cherry-picking that would lead to higher frequencies our overclocking and if that's true I sincerely hope that the rumors are not true then we won't have a whole lot of reason to buy one but hopefully hopefully there's some special bending or overclocking Headroom because we'd really like to get our our risin systems to work doing some overclocking livestreams but either way there is something special the dr. Lisa sue them or at least it'll be laser etched into the IHS for whatever that's worth in addition to a black and gold commemorative packaging so hopefully there's more to it than that but that said it's possible AMD may still have a surprise left to announce for this upcoming 50th anniversary and the risin 7 2700 X presumably will be made publicly known on April 29th the next one in laptop mags annual tech support showdown the site gauges the tech support offerings of top laptop vendors by posing as average consumers via phone live chat and social media they then compile the results and assign each company a score for 2019 laptop Magda finds that Apple continues its streak at the top followed closely by razor razor second place spot is notable as it was ranked second to worst last year so razors improving here MSI on the other hand fountain finds itself now in last place a place it was familiar with on these charts according to laptop bag previously MSI most recently showed its customer support in aptitude by way of a customer support agent informing a customer incorrectly on the 300 series and its support for upcoming rise in CPUs which you are all likely familiar from our last week's news episode Microsoft changing the tune on the Intel CPU shortage if you recall previously in one of our Hardware news episodes Microsoft had and earnings call where I'd stated that shortages in the Seaview market although it did not name its partner that it was accusing it was Intel we're hurting Windows 10 adoption and now Microsoft has sort of changed this the company stated quote we feel good about the supply in the commercial segment and the premium consumer segment which is where the vast majority of our revenue is an OEM and so I think in those segments we feel fine for quarter four this is from Microsoft CFO ami hood Microsoft's recent earnings and some part have been supported by consumers who are migrating to newer at of Windows probably finally off of seven or new machines with recent Windows versions Microsoft is ending support for Windows 7 it's ending sequel server 2008 support and that's a trend that Microsoft expects to continue into quarter 4 as well for growth of adoption and Microsoft could also be less concerned about Intel as more OEMs and consumers alike turn to AMD it's doubtful that Microsoft has any special interest in which CPUs are in Windows machines so long as their Windows machines Sampson announced a 12 year plan to invest one hundred and fifteen billion dollars in both its Samsung LSI and Samsung foundry businesses the plan will see Samson inject roughly at nine point five one billion per year through 2030 into its businesses the sixty three point four billion investment will be into R&D in South Korea while another fifty two point 1 billion will be spent on facilities expansion and infrastructure by 2030 Samsung aims to be not only a leader in memory but also logic chips Sam some notes that between now and 2030 the investments that will come with increasing its workforce by some 15,000 jobs and finally Intel finally announced the rest of its coffee lake refresh lineup if you've forgotten coffee lake it's back and it hasn't really gone away this is alongside the eight series of mobile chips rounding out the long-awaited ninth generation family being another rewarmed iteration of skylake there are not too many notable new features or ibc increases or things like that to discuss but the chips do bring higher frequencies within the same TDP profile Intel adding turbo boost support to the entry-level I three models is perhaps the most radical change and one that is no doubt a response to and these rise and three models that are aggressively priced versus Intel's pricing for its own i3 models the full 9th gen lineup offers the traditional non-case SKU variants of the high-end 9900 K the 9700 K the 9600 K so you've got the non K versions of those also quick aside 9th gen not particularly fair naming it's 9000 series it's it's 8 generation which is kind of refreshes from before that but not really a new generation of itself additionally Intel is debuting the not traditional K F and F suffix skews which indicates chips with stripped iGPS the lineup is punctuated by the new six core and eight core mobile parts such as the 99 a th K and the 98 50 H which will be making their way into laptops soon so 99 a th k might actually be pretty fun to work with we'll try and get one we might actually just buy a laptop with one of those if we can't get one because that should be an overclocking part in a laptop and hopefully it's fun to work with so even if it's not super practical buy so we'll try and get one but that's it for the news for this week thank you for watching as always subscribe for more go to store die cameras nexus net if you'd like to pick up one of these shirts or one of the mod mats which are finally back in stock thank you for your patience there there now though and we'll see you all next time