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everyone welcome back to another hardware news recap this week's been pretty busy TSMC is-7 anna meter process leading for fourth quarter 2018 revenue in towns making moves for seven animated production including in the u.s. actually one of their old fabrication plants 1660 TI continued news rumors announcements back blazes report and also this thing we're gonna be talking about today before that this video is brought to you by the coarser 1i 140 compact gaming pc the Corsair 1i 140 is a small form-factor pc outfitted with a 9700 k RT x 28 e 32 gigabytes of RAM and a 480 gigabyte nvme SSD all housed within a 2 millimeter thick aluminum chassis the Corsair 1i 140 is a 12 liter system fit for desktop use with the same size the I 160 counterpart with higher-end parts learn more at the link in the description below so first up the ln2 this is a giant liquid nitrogen container we just got it in we have a special guest Pro overclocker coming in and the stream will be on Sunday so that's the 27th is that right think think it's the 27th Sunday and that'll be at 1 p.m. Eastern time so we'll put some other times on the screen or something just to help you out but 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time in the US and we'll be there will be a special guest here when me using liquid nitrogen from me overclocking 299 ATX e and that's primarily what's going to get the Ellen 2 so this is a dare bauer beast pot that I have here Alan to pot and then we I don't know what we're gonna do with the video cards we might just do water to make it easy but we do have the capability to do Alan to you out there as well it just depends on how complicated we want to make things so definitely check back it's gonna be our most fun stream yet and having a special guest is also going to make it a lot more fun because it's someone who like I said pro overclockers so a lot of experience and should make things pretty interesting for everyone so absolutely check back on Sunday that'll be one day from the day this video is posted at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time us and and you can check out the stream on our YouTube channel first news item here it's a tsmc is 7 nanometer process takes the lead for fourth quarter 2018 revenue and in 2018 TSMC expected the post revenue growth for fourth quarter thanks to their advantage presently in seven nanometer manufacturing being basically the only ones doing it so TSM C announced that it expects over 100 different 7 nanometer designs to be taped out by 2019 and it also seems that its predictions so far have been accurate because as TSM see technology has been the biggest driver of revenue in the first in the final quarter of 2018 tsmc is also looking towards a strong first quarter of 2019 7 animator accounted for 23% of TSM C's total revenue in fourth quarter 2018 while it made up about 10% of their annual 2018 revenue pretty impressive considering the company wasn't doing seven and read the entire year and further this oh and if you didn't know it was ramped in about June so that's pretty good a pretty good revenue share considering that it's only been a couple of months six months or so the SMC has looked at lucrative partnerships with AMD apple and Vidya and Qualcomm who will all lean on TSM C's competitive advantage with seven nanometer TSMC is expected to roll out its second generation 7 nanometer technology sometime in 2019 which will include the use of UV or extreme ultraviolet lithography something that we've talked out on the channel in the past with expert technical analyst David Cantor if you missed that video you should check it out we talked 10 nanometer versus 7 and we talked about UV as well it's an important technology Intel setting the stage for seven animated production on its side of the fence so this has been a long time coming according to a report by The Oregonian the Intel is preparing to expand its Oregon d1x facility to accommodate future 7 animated production the report cites quote unnamed sources my voice is reverberating off of the lm-2 container sites unnamed sources so take this with a grain of salt of course it also cites quote people familiar with conversations whatever that means ever heard it in a coffee shop or something saying that Intel could begin a construction as early as June 4 it's 7 nanometer updates now despite sort of the the sarcasm there this does actually look like it's going to be a thing because intel's own public and official timelines do align with this so this is something intel has itself talked about in the past so what's going on then basically there's a project that looks to add a third phase to d 1x the oregon facility and it looks like that'll be equipped for EU v7 and reproduction speaking of TSMC it's in dolls going the same direction construction would last 18 months followed by several months of up fits for equipment installation so this is not a quick process and this is all according to the oregon ian Oregonian oregon ian i don't know their sources them so last december dr. anne Kelleher senior vice president and GM of manufacturing and operations at Intel announced that Intel had plans for multi-year expansions at its Oregon plant and included as well Israel and Ireland for its expansion options so the Oregon Ian or whatever their report seems to align with Intel's plans and despite this being sort of peppered with phrases like familiar with conversations it does appear to be a real thing this one's sort of interesting and caught us a bit off guard so there's a lawsuit dating back to 2015 that had just been granted class action certification and has been allowed to proceed and this has date set for February 5th 2019 to establish a timeline the lawsuit will see AMD and plaintiffs take a case regarding what the definition of a CPU core is before a jury in California this is assuming that AMD doesn't decide to settle out of court as companies often do but the company has already committed to defending itself vigorously in quotes the plaintiffs alleged that they were misled by Andy's representation of their FX processors whereby am the marketed the chips as eight core desktop CPUs the crux of the issue is in the way am the defines a CPU core with FX series each x86 core resides on a module with another x86 core and resources like l2 cache floating-point unit and instruction fetch and decode circuitry all shared between the cores the plaintiffs claim this messaging is disingenuous and that the FX series isn't not native in it as an eight-core part and only has four functional course the plaintiffs seek compensation for the difference between an eight-core and a four core cpu the skews in question are the FX 80 120 80 150 8320 8250 80 to 70 93 seventy and ninety five ninety and the complaint states the following according to plaintiffs a quote core is a processing unit that is able to operate eg perform calculations and execute instructions independent from other cores positioned on a chip plaintiffs allege that the bulldozer CPUs advertised as having eight cores actually contain eight sub processors which share resources such as l2 memory caches and floating-point units as for what's going to happen with that case while it's it's sort of just getting started so we'll keep you posted this one's a rumor but well it's seems like it's probably going to be a thing probably going to be accurate sixteen sixty TI arriving in February for $280 for the sixteen sixty to follow and apparently a sixteen fifty and the work so we haven't we've we've confirmed bits and pieces of this but not all of it we've already confirmed two sixteen sixty Ti is going to exist we haven't confirmed or checks with anyone on a timeline or a price so that's hard OCPs reporting and this report by hard OCP citing sources close to the product is attaching launch dates to Nvidia's long rumored non RT x touring based cards and also is looking at pricing so they're saying february 15th for $280 and a gtx 1660 non TI hard OCP reports will allegedly arrive in early March for $230 if the reporting is accurate wildly low and the GTX 1650 will come in late March for $180 based upon this report so this is this is what we know so far it's unofficial information of course and it's well some of it the 1660 Ti bid is probably accurate you could surmise interestingly harder CP claims and video will continue to supply the 1050 Ti presumably in lieu of a 1650 t I take all this with a grain of salt of course though as we've speculated fleshing out a selection of torreón options sans RT x makes a whole lot of sense as developers and consumers have largely been slow to acclimate to ray tracing and real time anyway developers are slow to support it and consumers have been on prepared to pay for it I'm out a few more trivial Hardware announcements but ones which are cemented in press releases so their official Samsung has announced its new 970 Evo plus family of SSDs trailing Western Digital so recent black SN 750 launch that's been in the news lately so the 970 Evo plus will supersede the 970 Evo as Sam sons sort of high-end consumer nvme SSD while also being Samsung's first mainstream offering using 96 layer 3d net the United 70 Evo plus like its predecessor uses the m2 20 to 80 form factor and a pcie 3.0 by 4 connection the drive will be offered in capacities of 250 gigabytes 500 gigabytes and one terabyte as well as 2 terabytes as usual speeds will vary a bit based on capacity specifically sequential write speeds nonetheless the drives are rated for sequential read and write speeds up to 3500 megabytes per second and 3300 back writes per second respectively the construction of the 970 Evo plus hasn't changed significantly based on the paper specifications the new drives will still use the Samsung Fenix controller and lpddr4 dram which makes the key focus of these drives at Samsung's at fifth-generation 3d net Samsung's at newest generation of NAND should allow them to remain competitive in pricing while also increasing density improving cost per gigabyte and performance per watt in theory anyway MSRP is for the 970 Evo plus are going to be $90 for the 250 gigabyte model $130 for the 500 gigabyte model 250 for one terabyte and TBD for two terabytes Samsung offers a five-year warranty with all of its 970 Evo plus models with the tbw or total bytes written data available in samsung specs on their website so noticeably absent is any mention of a 970 Pro Plus model and Samsung could be waiting for the arrival of PCIe 4.0 or even 5.0 since that has been firmly ratified at this point finally Backblaze the backup company has released its annual hard drive report so the report for 2018 if you don't know Backblaze puts these out every year and often quarterly to their reports on thousands upon thousands of hard drives and the reliability of those I was in a real data center and backup storage solution enterprise so you can see sort of how many of their drives have failed in different categories and it's always interesting it's it's of course one source for information but they have thousands of Drive so it's pretty good source so Backblaze is 2018 report mostly is unsurprising if you've seen their previous ones these kinds of reports do tend to highlight broad trends and data storage as well so the trends according to Backblaze stats are that there is continued migration towards denser storage and the annualized failure rate has lowered of course it could thin the information comes from a monitoring process of a hundred and four thousand seven hundred and seventy eight hard drives this time across 15 different models for 2018 back plays continued to replace two three and four terabyte hard drives with eight ten and twelve terabyte options they even had some 14 terabyte options added to the mix and those are the helium-filled PMR drives from Toshiba a couple of highlights from the report are as follows in 2016 the average size of hard drives in use was 4.5 terabytes by 2018 the average size had grown to 7.7 terabytes the 2018 annualized failure rate of 1.25% was the lowest by far of any year that Backblaze has recorded so interesting information on hard drives and as always we'll have all these links in the show notes below if you want to check the sources for these stories and then that brings us back to the conclusion here check back for our overclocking livestream Sunday that's tomorrow at the time this video goes live so that'll be Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time in the u.s. check back we'll be doing some liquid-nitrogen overclock and I'll be the first time we've ever live-streamed it so hopefully hopefully the tank hasn't leaked otherwise we won't be able to do it but check back you can check Twitter comm slash gamers Nexus for updates subscribe for more go to store documents nexus dotnet - helps out directly and i'll see you all next time