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welcome back to the hardware box news corner been a few weeks since we run the segment on the channel but we're back we're ready to resume a normal Friday coverage of whatever news topics appeared throughout the week it does seem like we're in a bit of a lull period between the RTX launch and a few upcoming launches for the Korra 999 hundred K and RT X 2070 but there's still a couple of interesting things to discuss quick update on RT X 28 e TI availability as you know Nvidia delayed the 28 et I watched from its original September 20th launch date to September 27th and then again to early October well the good news is cards bought through Nvidia comm with a September ship date will all ship by October 5th which is today and then those with an October ship date will see them shipped by October 10th so shouldn't be too long until those cards arrive it does seem like Nvidia is struggling with 28 e TI stock most board partner cards are also out of stock at major retail as well it's relatively easy to get an RT x 28 e no surprises for why that might be in videos latest blog post says that supply chain updates have been resolved so hopefully there's a few more 28 et eyes in the market soon AMD will be hosting their first ever keynote address at CES 2019 in Las Vegas with CEO Lisa suit set to take the stage to talk about seven nanometer CPUs and GPUs the keynote will be held on January 9 which is the first official day of the show but it won't be the prime opening keynote that slot is yet to be announced in was filled last year by Intel and then before that Microsoft for a number of years however the fact that AMD is hosting a keynote at all is big news for the company which is historically used lower key events to launch products 20:19 those said to be a big one for AMD as they involved their seven nanometer consumer portfolio including Xen 2 based products that are expected to form the Rison 3000 series and of course na'vi based GPUs and b have explicitly stated that the keynote will be used to discuss high performance 7 nanometre CPUs and GPUs so we can pretty much expect to see launch of these products on stage at CES of course doesn't necessarily mean that the products will hit store shelves soon after we still expect third generation to become available around the same time as rising in the past few years that's to say in March or April new graphics cards could take a little longer than knowing AMD's past releases where they've teased details well ahead of general availability still 2019 should be very exciting for AMD especially on the GPU side where we should hopefully see some proper competition for invidious high-end products as reported by moe moe moe via video cards potential core I $9.99 hundred K packaging has leaked through an Amazon listing the listing shows a dodecahedron box with translucent panels which certainly is quite strange but more in line with what AMD you're doing these days with their thread river packaging you can also see specs like 8 core 16 threads up to 500 gigahertz clock speeds and a $582 50 price though who knows if that price is correct the packaging looks a little too strange to be a fake we did spot one growing issue and that's the perspective of the core i9 logo if the upper pentagonal face isn't flat relative to the camera yet decor and own logo doesn't seem to match that perspective but we have seen a higher resolution photo of the box from a different angle and looks pretty real to me so I suspect this is what we'll see on launch day in more legitimate news I guess late last week Intel DIF confirm they're under pressure with the capacity of their 14 nanometer production facilities the company is prioritizing the production of high performance Xeon and core processors at these facilities while also increasing the investment in fabs by 1 billion dollars to boost 14 nanometer production at their various firms around the globe it's also provided an update on 10 nanometers saying that yields are improving and they expect volume production in 2019 though who knows where the Intel Estonia truth with that one considering their track record Microsoft and NVIDIA have begun the process of readying pcs for ray-tracing so we might finally be able to test that soon and see what it's like a couple of days ago Microsoft began rolling out the Windows 10 October 2018 update version 1809 which updates Direct X to support dxr or DirectX ray-tracing a key API that's needed to support ray tracing in DirectX games we also get a few other things like better HDR management a dark mode for Explorer and a new version of WDDM nvidia also released a new driver for their GeForce graphics cards version for 1616 which brings official support for the Windows 10 October 2018 update and game ready support for DX are interesting to say this game really support for DX our window games have ray-tracing just yet but whatever there's also a few new sli profiles for games like Battlefield 5 and divinity original sin - we'll keep you posted on when games have been updated to include rate racing but now it's actually possible thanks to Microsoft's update the Wi-Fi Alliance has renamed and simplified the names of their Wi-Fi standards Wi-Fi attitude at 11a C for example becomes simply Wi-Fi 5 which makes it much easier to identify how what is the latest standard attitude 11 n becomes Wi-Fi 4 and the upcoming Aero 2.11 a X becomes Wi-Fi 6 this joins other communication protocols like Bluetooth that use simple numbered naming schemes which are so much benefit consumers than stuff like AC and ax which make pretty much no sense if you don't aren't really familiar with the the Wi-Fi naming schemes this new will be different versions of Wi-Fi 5 in different peak throughputs depending on the Maya and tenor configuration now account balance and so on so not everything about a Wi-Fi implementation is met obvious through the number but it's definitely a step in the right direction couple of laptop announcements to close this one out alien where are finally getting into the slim gaming laptop market with the m15 their thinnest machine yet this new 15-inch machine isn't the smallest I've seen but it's a massive step forward for the company that traditionally makes the biggest heaviest chunkier slap from so you can find the hardware were looking at a core i7 87 58 GTX 10 60 or 1070 max Q and a 1080p 144 Hertz display as some of the typical specs that there are higher and lower end models that use different CPUs displays and storage configurations the base model will be available for thirteen hundred US dollars and will be available on October 25th microsoft also refreshed their surface line up with a new surface pro 6 surface laptop and surface studio the pro 6 uses a new 8th gen cpu from Intel and comes in a new matte black color while the surface laptop also receives 8th gen quad-core CPUs and the new hello the pro six will set you back at least $900 and the laptop at least one thousand US dollars with auto shipping on October 16th the studio while that's still costs a whopping three thousand five hundred dollars to start with the partner uses a faster core i7 7820 HQ processor with up to GTX 1070 graphics with an updated and still excellent 28 inch 4500 by 3000 display with pen support not quite sure why they didn't use an 8th gen processor there they're still going with the quad core 7820 HQ but maybe there's some thermal reasons for that that's it for this week's news corner subscribe to get this segment in your inbox next Friday as well and don't forget to hit the bell icon consider supporting us on patreon to get access to our exclusive discord chat and I'll catch you in the next one