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welcome back to the hard run box news corner I decided to take a few days off this week but I couldn't leave you guys with hot news corner on Friday so I'm back to tackle some of the biggest news topics including the resignation of Intel CEO and new NVIDIA GPU you definitely shouldn't get excited about and plenty of other interesting story so let's get right into it the first story came as a bit of a surprise when I was browsing the internet last night Intel CEO Brian krzanich has resigned effective immediately due to having a past consensual relationship with an Intel employee this sort of behavior is against Intel's code of conduct which prevents relationships between an employee and their direct subordinate apparently the relationship ended a while ago but Intel was only made aware of it recently Cruz NH has resigned from both the CEO position and the Board of Directors CFO Robert Swan has stepped up to be an interim CEO while the company explores a replacement it does seem like this resignation has come at short notices Intel doesn't have any replacements lined up at the moment however the search for a new CEO has begun with Intel looking at both internal and external candidates Cruz Energy's tenure as CEO has seen Intel continually post record profits and strong growth however some criticize his leadership throughout recent issues including Intel struggles with 10 nanometer fabrication and the whole specter and meltdown fiasco it will definitely be interesting to see where Intel goes on a new leadership and it could be a refreshing change for a company that is facing increased competition Nvidia also pulled a surprise move this week unveiling the Titan V CEO edition CEO Jensen Wang revealed this new Titan vsq at the computer vision and pattern recognition conference and proceeded to give away 20 units right there the Titan V CEO Edition is a limited edition GPU and right now it's not a retail product so there's no price no launch date no official specification sheet and no formal announcement it probably will become a limited-time retail product in the future at some ludicrous price but right now the only units appear to be those given away at this launch anyway the cool thing about the Titan vceo edition it's vram increased to 32 gig of HBM - this means nvidia is using 8 high stacks the same used on their 32 gig tesla accelerators but it also means another rot and memory controller partition has been enabled relative to the standard titan v the regular titan v has 12 gig of HB m2 so it has three partitions enabled leading to 96 ROPS a 3072 bit memory bus and 4.5 Meg's of l2 cache in pushing the CEO Edition to 32 gig of HB m to the 4th partition needs to be enabled which means the card has 128 ROPS of 4096 bit memory bus and 6 megabytes of l2 cache we don't have any other official specification so it's not clear what clock speeds the GPU or memory will run at but if everything remains the same as the regular Titan be the CEO Edition will provide a meaningful performance improvement in both memory bandwidth or rot limited applications curiously in video also lists the CEO Edition as having 125 teraflops of tensor core performance up from 110 teraflops with the standard titan v so there might be some clock speed gains there as well we'll have to wait and see what the cards final specs are and if it will ever come to retail channels but for those out there with Titan B's just know your $3,000 GPU has now been superseded a MB is said to overhaul free sync - shortly to help alleviate consumer confusion over what freesync - provides and also to update the requirements to get free sync - certification this is welcome news for people thinking of upgrading to an HDR monitor in the coming months it was pretty unclear what free sync - provided so hope you with these changes I won't need to make another ten minute video explaining what free sync - is all about the first change is a minor name update from free Singh - to free sync to HDR consider increasing - is mostly about HDR support this change makes it much clearer to buyers what you are getting when you see a monitor with the free sync to HDR badge of course free Singh - also specifies a lower input latency and mandates support for low framerate compensation but the most visible and important feature for buyers is definitely the HDR support the other change is bigger and arguably more important fruiting to HDR monitors must now meet the display HDR 600 specification in other words a free sync - certified monitor support at least 600 nits of peak flash brightness and must cover 99% of the BT 709 color space and 90% of DCI p3 the spec also mandates certain black levels between LCDs conforming to display HDR 600 need some form of local dimming originally freezing to only required display HDR 400 conformance however that's a fairly weak HDR spec it doesn't really give a true HDR experience for example display HDR 400 doesn't mandate wider than si G because or particularly impressive peak brightness levels whereas display HDR 600 does this change should mean that freezing to HDR certified monitors will be able to deliver a decent HDR experience rather than potentially no real HDR at all it's not clear what will happen to Mahlon is that past the original freezing to certification for example they passed display HDR 400 certification but would fail the tighter freezing to HDR process hopefully MD can prevent these models from use increasing tube badges on their packaging and remove any references to free sync to on their website so because you miss don't accidentally purchase one thinking they're getting good HDR some motherboard vendors are preparing to drop support for Bristol Ridge ap used on the am for boards due to lack of space in the BIOS most motherboards uses 16 megabytes chip to store the BIOS and associated micro code for all supported processes however with aim for growing to support a wide and wider range of CPUs and ap use some vendors are running out of space on the chip to store all the microcode they need the solution at least in the case of some vendors is to drop support for the least popular hem for processes and in that case it's Bristol Ridge considering there is very little reason to buy a Bristol Ridge APU in 2018 there there really isn't a big loss here other vendors have explored expanding the size of the bio strip to 32 megabytes however the cost of this larger chip is more than double the 16 megabytes chip some vendors have looked into using two 16 Meg's but again that's a higher cost which doesn't really work that well with budget boards anyway it's an interesting problem that motherboard vendors are facing them short future boards will introduce a proper solution that doesn't require dropping support for some CPUs Intel has once again inadvertently confirmed the existence of eight core coffee lake s CPUs over in their resource and design center hot hardware uncovered customer communication for a Z on a coffee like s8 core processor which indicates that there will be an a core CPU headed to Intel's mainstream server lineup in the near future there's not a whole lot else to say here other than the document details Intel's component sample identification and usage guidelines the document has since been removed which suggests it was published early by a mistake hopefully it won't be too long until we hear more about Intel's eight core processor not just the Zeon's but also for standard desktops moving into some more quicker topics of this week Samsung has announced a new 8 terabyte SSD that uses the nf1 form factor the drive is unnamed at the moment but it does feature sixteen 512 gigabyte NAND packages and a new controller that supports both PCIe 4.0 and nvm a 1.3 if you're wondering what the nf1 form factor is it's basically a modified wider m2 designed for enterprise that allows a single SSD stick to pack two rows of chips per side this means better density which is crucial for some enterprise customers performance wise we're looking at 3.1 and 2.0 gigabytes per second sequential reads and writes respectively along with 500 ki ops random reads but just 50 ki UPS random writes the drive is available now though as with a lot of enterprise products there is no public price and if there was it'll probably blow our minds anyway asa has launched two new monitors if you can really call them monitors one is a 49 inch IPS LCD and the other is an even larger 55 inch IPS LCD not sure why anyone would want to sit in front of a 55 inch monitor especially for a Productivity task but I guess it might make sense for gaming both pact 4k resolutions and HDR support or low brightness tops out of just 350 nits and there's just a 1200 to 1 contrast ratio so don't expect great HDR there we're looking at pricing of around 550 us for the 49 inch and 800 us for the 55 inch ah oh and before I move on these are the official names of the monitors the EB 4 9 0 qk BM III pfx and the eb-5 50 kb em III px are you actually serious I say is that the best you could come up with for a monitor geez some Mauro names are just horrendous anyway some cool looking minds from a seven we'll get those fairly shortly Western Digital has expanded their line of purple hard drives with new 10 and 12 terabyte models that are deep learning capable and include all frame AI technology yep they are marketed as AI optimized surveillance drives hard drives that are AI optimized anyway they're available now priced at $400 for 10 terabytes and $480 for 12 terabytes the steam summer sale is now on so head over to the steam store and check out all the deals buy a few games you won't play for years complete the usual set of minigames and other fun stuff get good deals on popular tiles you know the drill it's on now so go check it out and one last rumor to finish this news corner off Hong Kong website HK EPC suggest the name of AMD's upcoming 3200m Ripper CPU is the thread Ripper 2990 X the rest of the specifications they're claiming don't seem right at all such as the 3.4 gigahertz base clock and 4.0 gigahertz single core boost when mb has already said the CPU at least for their test systems using a 3.0 gigahertz base but the name is pretty cool hopefully AMD goes with it anyway that's it that this week's news corner don't forget to subscribe to get this new segment in your inboxes every single Friday consider supporting us on patreon where you can get access to our exclusive discord channel that's it for this one I'll catch you next time you