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welcome back to the hardware box news corner lots of news coming in this week thanks to e 420 80 which is currently happening over in Germany where we've seen a ton of new laptops and displays launched on top of that though this week we did hear about Global Foundries ending plans to offer seven nanometer manufacturing so a fair few topics to cover let's get right into them first story of the week Intel launched a new selection of CPUs but don't get too excited because they're not new ninth gen desktop CPUs like the long-awaited eight core core I $9.99 hundred K instead Intel strangely released a new selection of 8th gen mobile parts codenamed whiskey like you and amber Lake why I'm not entirely sure why these are 8th gen CPUs when it seems Intel be rolling out 9th gen shortly but here we are a year after KB Lake refresh launched as 8th gen we have whiskey Lake also as eighth gen so fun times not a whole lot of interesting stuff to say here to be honest these new CPUs improve upon their predecessors by offering in ninety of USB 3.1 support and an integrated 802 211 AC controller as for actual SKUs let's first go through whiskey like you these are 15 watt parts like KB Lake refresh you were previously and we're still getting four core eight thread core i5 and core i7 CPUs along with two core four thread core i3 s the only real difference is a slight bump to clock speeds the core i7 85 65 u has a base clock of 1.8 gigahertz and a boost of 4.6 gigahertz so that's up from the 1.8 gigahertz pace and 4.0 gigahertz boost of the existing KP like refresh core i7 8550 you you get similar bumps with the core i5 82 65 you and the core i3 81 45 you graphics and cache are the same as before as far as amber lake is concerned these are the first eighth Gen Y series part so they pack a 5 watt TDP originally the plan was to have a 10 nanometer Cannon Lake as Y series parts but due to delays and issues that never really eventuated it's what we have instead our amber lake which are 3-2 core for thread CPUs with UHD 61.5 graphics but don't get excited for anything new these are again just basic clock speed boost to older seventh gen KB Lake parts the core i7 8500 why for example jumps up to a 1.5 gigahertz base and 4.2 gigahertz boost clock compared to a 1.3 gigahertz base and 3.6 gigahertz boost for the core i7 7 y 7 5 it's again similar for the core i5 8200 Y and core m3 80 100 why getting these sorts of minor clock speed bumps within the same TDP rating is always nice but we'll have to wait and see whether there is any real-world difference in things like sustained clock speeds and actual power draw compared to existing parts still these new whiskey lake and amber Lake parts +12 systems that previously used either kb lake refresh or kb likewhy quite nicely and as you might expect whenever there is a new mobile cpu launch from intel we get a range of new laptops from all the major vendors I'm not going to go through everything in detail but if you are after a new laptop there are plenty of decent looking options from companies like Dell Lenovo ASA and a sous dell for example launched a new XPS 13 21 that includes intel's new Amberleigh qui process is giving a minor cpu upgrade they also launched a cheaper XPS 13 configuration with the core i3 81-34 just $900 asa launched the lightest ever 15 inch notebook the swift 5 or just 990 grams which packs a whiskey lake cpu and will be available in January for $1,100 a so also launched the 14 inch Swift 3 with whiskey Lake and an MX 150 stunning and $800 for masseuse we have the Zen book 13 14 and 15 which use Intel's new CPUs and up to a GTX 1050 max-q GPU in slim bodies with new expansive slim bezel displays Lenovo here a bit of a strange warrant from them they launched a new yoga book that bizarrely is using seventh Gen Y Series parts rather than 8th gen and yeah probably won't talk and even her about these new systems perhaps the biggest story to break this week Global Foundries has announced they are ending the development of their seven nanometer fabrication process the company has stopped all work on 7 nanometers will not produce seven nanometer chips for any customers and will stead focus on specialized process technologies for client in emerging high-growth markets at least that's in an antics own words and as far as that stuff is concerned we're talking more about 14 and 12 nanometers start the RF customers and so forth rather than cutting-edge seven animator tech this new surprise most of us considering the enormous cost of developing a new process node it's not something you simply decide to stop working on at the drop of a hat instead this is a massive strategy shift for Global Foundries and ending all development on seven animators will likely cost them billions of dollars especially considering the node was set to be ready in the fourth quarter of this year the company even confirmed the decision to stop work on seven animators was not based on technical issues but rather ongoing financial concerns perhaps they were simply not enough customers interested in their 7 nanometer node I mean it's really hard to say at this point in canceling seven nanometers Global Foundries also can't work on five nanometer and three nanometer of research and development so it's clear the company isn't interested in being a cutting-edge fabrication facility anymore an 8x article goes into more depth on what Global Foundries will be providing moving forward but it's definitely disappointing to see the number of leading-edge fabs drop down to just two samsung and tsmc will be the only remaining ones that provide I guess their services to other parties and then of course there's Intel if you want to count them as well as for the major PC chip manufacturers AMD was one of globalfoundries biggest customers the two companies work together for both CPUs such as Rison and GPUs like Vega and those were on Global Foundries 12 nanometer and 14 nanometer nodes however moving forward AMD will shift using tsmc for CPU and GPU manufacturing and it seems this has been in the works for some time so it shouldn't be a massive hindrance for AMD you know existing projects like seven nanometer Vega and seven nanometer epoch were already set to use TSM sees process tech basically this is just a confirmation that other seven nanometer projects will be using it tsmc as well again I don't expect that to impact them too much in video of course they've been a tsmc customer for some time so this Global Foundries news doesn't impact them whatsoever while Intel again they use their own fabs and they are having her own set of issues moving to their equivalent 10 nanometer node so yeah be really interesting to see what happens with foundries moving forward and I think tsmc will certainly continue to submit themselves is the biggest third-party fabrication facility out there couple of interesting new monitors have launched Eva from Acer and Samsung we'll start with the ACE offerings first up is the Acer predator xB 273 K and that's a 27 inch 4k IPS monitor with the maximum 144 Hertz refresh rate and gsync support we're also getting HDR support certified for display HDR 400 with 400 nits of peak brightness and 90% DCI p3 coverage but you shouldn't confuse the predator xB 273 K for the predator X 27 the X 27 is aces flagship HDR monitor with a thousand it's of peak brightness and a 384 zone local dimming backlight the xB 273 K appears to ditch the fancy backlight for a more traditional one with that local dimming while also ditching the quantum dot film which shaves the price down from $2,000 to just $1300 when it's released in q4 I saw also unveiled a collection of new high end nitro monitors the Nitro XV 273 K is basically a free sync version of the predator xB 273 K and will cost $900 so at decent $400 cheaper than the g-sync equivalent there's also the 27-inch Nitro XV 272 U which is a 27-inch 1440p IPS panel at 144 Hertz likely without HDR for $500 and then there's the Nitro X F 272 you Italian version of the XV 272 you for four hundred and fifty dollars samsung also announced the new ultra wide monitors the c 34 j 791 is a 34 inch 34 40 by 1440 VA panel at 100 Hertz with freesync a 1500 her curve and 125 percent srgb coverage with quantum dot there's a Thunderbolt 3 input in addition to DisplayPort and HDMI and will cost about 880 euros the c 43 J 89 is a 43 inch 38 40 by 1200 VA panel at 120 Hertz with an 1800 curve and the c49 J 890 is a 49 inch 38 40 by 1080 VA panel 1:44 hurts also with an 1800 R curve the 49 inch model also cost around 900 euros lots of numbers and letters that get through I can't move I may through that in just one take on the show floor a optronics showed off their new 32 inch 4k 144 Hertz HD arm panel with multi zone back Lane that will be coming to monitors shortly as a larger equivalent to existing displays like the PG 27 new Q news also a broke that invidious big format gaming displays have been delayed to q1 2019 the BFG DS are basically high-end 65 inch TVs with HDR g-sync at least a thousand its of brightness DCI p3 coverage and so forth they're also set to cost between 4000 and 5000 euros which is right up there with the prices of high-end OLED TVs so you'd hope the picture quality is stunning what else we got here I guess battlefield 5 that's been delayed until November 20th the game was originally set to come out on October 19th but dice apparently wanted to make some meaningful improvements to the core gameplay experience based on feedback from the closed alpha so it's been delayed u-l are developing a new 3d mark test that would utilize ray tracing specifically microsoft's directx ray tracing which technologies like nvidia RT x then utilize it'll be a new separate test to existing tests like fire strike and time spire and apparently it should be ready for the launch of invidious new GPUs around September 20th final story of this week Jim Anderson has departed AMD's computing and graphics group where he was senior vice president and general manager and he'll be joining lattice semiconductor as CEO Anderson will join lattice on September 4th having joined AMD in June 2015 let us make programmable logic devices like fpga is just in case you were wondering that's it for this week's news corner plenty of interesting stuff going on and I expect next month will be even more hectic with launchers from Nvidia and perhaps more launches from Intel fun stuff anyway if you like this segment subscribed harder on box and hit that Bell icon so YouTube sends it to you directly every Friday consider supporting us on patreon to get access to our exclusive discord chat and I'll catch you in the next one