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this video is brought to you by cabbies calm design your own custom snap backs and hats thanks to cap based for sponsoring this video and welcome to the hardware unbox news corner today we've got all sorts of news topics to cover including a ton of AMD related stories Intel indirectly confirming there's e3 90 and X 399 chipsets new Samsung 970 Pro and Evo SSDs Corsair potentially getting into the monitor market and more so let's kick things off with news of new AMD graphics cards during AMD's latest earnings call CEO dr. Lisa surah field that the company already has a working prototype of a seven nanometer Vega GPU in the Radeon Technology Group labs this fits with AMD's roadmap that placed 7 nanometre Vega for launch in 2018 and indeed Lisa soon mentioned that AMD is on track to sample this product to customers later this year unfortunately for game is the first seven nanometer Vega product will be a Radeon Instinct graphics processor for AI and machine learning these first professional cards will likely use the GPU codename vaguer 20 which rumors say brings more double precision compute power more memory bandwidth and more HBM to to the table while the codenamed Vega 20 is a bit confusing considering we have Vega 56 and 64 gaming GPUs it is the successor to Vega 10 which is the GPU family that includes vac is 64 and 56 so from all reports Vega 20 will be AMD's refreshed high-end cheaper your product it's hard to know if aim D will release a seven nanometer Vega GP for gamers or non professional workloads this year as the company is only talking about Radeon instinct with seven animator Vega at this point I'm not tending towards an O at this point we'll probably have to wait for Navi in 2019 but you never know normally I don't bother covering financial results is they're super boring but I think this quarters revenue report for AMD is pretty interesting and delivers some long-awaited good news for AMD investors the key thing to note here is revenue for q1 20:18 was 1.65 billion up 1.18 billion in the same quarter a year ago this allowed amb to actually make an operating profit of 120 million and a net profit of 81 million which is far better than the loss they occurred a year ago a lot of these gains are due to an enormous rise in revenue for AMD's computing and graphics division up from just five hundred and seventy three million to 1.12 billion year on year a lot of this would be down to a and be launching Rison and completely turning around their cpu department though strong sales of Radeon cars would have helped as well it's also important to note this doesn't yet include revenue from a and B second gen rise and processes so no doubt next quarter will be similarly impressive from AMD you might have seen around the second gen rising launch some stories reporting that aim DS official warranty Verizon stated that the warranty is only valid if you use the included box heatsink slash fan obviously this seems pretty unreasonable so when it was pointed out to AMD that updated their warranty terms to allow third party coolers that conform with ambhi's official specifications a minor change but it is an important one for rising buyers go ahead and use whatever supported cool you like and don't worry about your warranty being voided may as well keep talking about the AMD news stories of the week this one relating to the company's new combat crates not a particularly exciting announcement farmers but I have seen it discussed in a few places basically these crates bundle a first gen rise in process and a be 350 motherboard together and in some cases add in a Radeon rx 580 GPU and then tech crunch the numbers and these crates don't really provide a significant discount over the current retail prices of the individual components though they do give you pricing stability and also the ability to actually buy an rx 580 GPU it's definitely worth reiterating the crates include processes like the risin 5 1600 and risin 7 1700 so if you were expecting second gen rising you won't find it here it does seem mostly like away for AMD to flush out remaining first gen rise in stock while bundling them with in-demand graphics cards if you're interested the combat crates are available through Amazon now final AMD news story for this week the company has launched the Rison 320 200 GE and rise in 521 hundred G these are 35 watt variants of AMD's Raven Ridge ap use with integrated Vega GPUs the only real difference between these and the Nani models being slightly reduced CPU clock speeds the 2200 GE drops from a 3.5 gigahertz base and 3.7 gigahertz boost to a 3.2 gigahertz base at 3.6 gigahertz boost while the 2400 GE goes from 3.6 and 3.9 gigahertz to 3.2 and 3.8 gigahertz these new low-power ApS should hit the market soon new Intel rapid storage technologies drivers and their release notes have indirectly revealed Intel's upcoming z3 90 and X 399 chipsets I think everyone at this point already assumed or knew these chipsets were coming in the future but Intel's driver release notes do give a bit of extra information on what we can expect said 390 and X 399 will both use Intel's Canon point HPC H which is already sold in a variety of schools that include be 360 H 370 and H 310 but not said 370 this makes Z 390 essentially an upgraded version of zebb 370 that uses this newer chip as expected as for features it looks like Z 390 will be similar to 8 370 but with overclocking support and increase to 24 pcie 3.0 lanes and support for an extra rst PS a storage device interestingly an and tech also points out that the X 399 platform will only be validated for Sky like X to begin with so it's unclear where the KB Lake X will work with X 399 when the chipsets launch ninth generation Canon like you series parts will use a different chipset called chemin point LP it seems like every company these days wants to get into the monitor market this week news broke that Corsair are potentially developing gaming monitors to go along with everything else they currently make a job posting was spotted that asks for a product manager for the display product line so it seems Corsair are gearing up to launch a monitor or two in the coming years this is basically all the information we have on this at this stage and it could still be a while before we see the first course air monitors hit the market speaking of monitors this week Philips announced the momentum 43 which at 43 inches apparently still qualifies as a monitor anyway it has a 3840 by 2160 MVA panel and crucially it is display HDR 1000 certified in other words it supports a peak brightness of 1000 nits to go along with the 4,000 to 1 contrast ratio and 97.6% DCI p3 color space reproduction Philips even says the monitor can sustain 720 nits of brightness it which is pretty impressive this monitor really isn't meant for gaming as it has just a 60 Hertz refresh though it does have adaptive sync support you also get ambi glow mood lighting that projects suitable lighting from the back of the monitor using RGB LEDs the momentum 43 6 m6 which is the prime name for this monitor will cost one thousand dollars and should be available in late July Samsung has launched new high end SSDs in the 970 pro and 970 Evo these are both PCIe nvme drives in an MDOT tube form factor with the pro available in 512 Deacon 1 terabyte capacities while the Evo comes in 256 K through 2 2 terabyte capacities Samsung is even upgraded than 970 Evo to an impressive 5-year warranty looking over PC perspectives review it's clear that these drives offer impressive performance thanks to a new phoenix controller you get roughly a 10% performance gain in general compared to the 960 line and that allows these SSDs to deliver class-leading performance the 970 Pro in particular is extremely fast as you'd expect given the price tag you'll be able to purchase these drives on May 7th and I highly recommend you check out the pc perspective review links in the description final news topic for this week and this is something a few of you have pointed out to me in the comments in the last few videos a report from notebook checks suggests that the notorious nvidia geforce partner program is to blame for slow adoption of intel's impressive vocabulary processes among laptop manufacturers as it currently stands kb lake tree has only been featured in a handful of procs a couple of laptops from HP and Dell a mini PC from chewy and of course Intel's own nuts other companies like msi gigabyte or soos a search and so forth who are known to make both gaming laptops and many pieces heaven as yet announced anything with cable a key inside notebook checks citing three independent sources claims invidious GPP terms are preventing some companies from using cable Hg it's no surprise in video would want to stop companies from using cable Hg with its integrated AMD Vega graphics instead of an Intel Plus Nvidia combination considering the discussion around the anti-competitive nature of the GPP the story does make sense although as with anything related to the GPP it is hard to get any concrete information on the record about what is going on that's it for this week's news corner as always subscribe to get this short new summary in your inbox every Friday thanks to cat beast for sponsoring this video check them out at cat beast dot-com and enter the code hu 10 in the checkout to get 10% off and I'll catch you in the next one you