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hi everyone and welcome to episode two of the news corner a weekly news wrap-up show that we debuted last week to a ton of positive feedback so big thanks for the support from you guys out there I'm back this week for another look at some news and hopefully I can wrap this up reasonably quickly does actually have to catch a flight in about 12 hours time anyway in this week's news corner we'll be discussing five Intel stories that's right Intel has been quite busy this week along with massive Samsung SSDs 64 core AMD CPU rumors and a couple of game topics this first topic is something that might make a Star Wars and video game fans very happy to hear there is a rumor floating around right now that Disney and Lucasfilm are set to ditch Electronic Arts as the exclusive rights holder for Star Wars games as apparently Disney aren't happy with how EA has handled the franchise I have absolutely no idea if the story is even remotely true and a Lynch words are being completely made up but it's one of those stories you just want to be true you know after the battlefront to loot crate disaster and EAS closure of visceral games who are developing a single-player Star Wars game there's not much more AE a could have done to ruin Star Wars games to the fans the original source report suggests Lucasfilm are looking at Ubisoft and Activision to take over the star wars license though I'm not sure either of those would be the best option surely the ideal solution would be to sparingly license the Star Wars brand to any studio willing to make a quality game so we can you know get a wide variety of titles covering many genres but yes room is probably not true but you know at least we can all hope next topic is about Samsung's new PM 164 3 SSD which is a completely unimaginative name for what is a crazy Drive this ludicrous SSD crams 30.7 2 terabytes of storage into a 2.5 inch 15 millimeter high drive with a SAS 12 gigabit per second interface the SSD uses a proprietary Samsung control along with a ton of 512 gigabit 64 layer TLC vayne inch chips Samsung are stacking 16 of these chips into one terabyte packages then cramming 40 packages into the onedrive giving a total capacity of 30 point 7 2 terabytes after over-provisioning there's also a 40 gigabyte ddr4 sdram cache and rated insurance of 56 petabytes over five years while not targeting blazing fast speeds the PM 1 6 4 3 should be capable of 20 100 megabyte per second sequential reads 1,700 megabyte per second sequential writes 400 K random reader ups and 50 K random write AI ups enterprises can also configure the power consumption between 9 and 13 point 5 Watts with lower power drawer causing a hit to performance if they choose that configuration this is a very impressive storage device for data centers and other enterprises you need that high density high performance storage it basically doubles Samsung's last high capacity drive which topped out at fifteen point three six terabytes of course there is no word on pricing for the 30 terabyte unit but we can safely assume it will be thousands and thousands of dollars moving into the Intel news now late last week into a briefly list of their upcoming ten nanometer cannon Lake processes in a micro code update document Intel did remove the references after people uncovered them however it does reveal Intel has shipped these processors to some customers ahead of an expected launch later this year there's not a ton of information in the document but it does reveal at least two configurations of a cannon Lake use Siri CPU 2 + 2 in other words - CPU cores and gt2 graphics and 2 + 0 which is 2 CPU cores and no integrated graphics it's also worth mentioning that you series parts typically have a 15 watt TDP designed for low-power notebooks so these first 10 nanometer parts won't be high performance by any stretch however it is interesting that the first references to 10 nanometer Cannon Lake are for you serious parts of rather than why series typically the first Intel CPUs released in any new generation are the 4 point 5 watt Y series parts but so far we haven't seen any active the Gen Y serious parts it was expected the first 10 animator Canon leg parts would be these y series parts to round out you know the 8th generation though it is possible that plans might have changed and instead we'll see cannon lake for the first time as ninth gen user excuse so it's something to keep an eye out at least for the very least as the progresses the second Intel story of the day is really into Spector everyone's favorite critical process of comparability we all know that Intel rushed and basically botched the initial release of Spector patches earlier this year causing reboots and other system instabilities particularly on older CPU architectures well a couple of days ago Intel released what should hopefully be stable microcode updates for all skylake cable ache and coffee Lake processors that address the specter variant 2 vulnerability you know the one about stealing information through bad branch prediction these new patches are only for 6th gen processors and newer however Intel's does say that they have a range of beta patches in the work the Sandy Bridge through to Broadwell which they've distributed under NDA to some hardware vendors again like with the previous run of patches users will have to pray their motherboard manufacturer actually releases a new biased revision that includes these updates last time around it wasn't as common as we'd have liked to see patches were much more common for laptops and pre-built desktops and we expect a similar situation this time around new coffee-like CPUs have started appearing at some online retailers with pricing giving us a good look at what to expect in the coming weeks when Intel finally releases them we did first hear about this CPUs back in January through a pricing leak with an Australian retailer this is the first time we've seen the u.s. pricing so starting from the bottom end r2 Celeron processors with two cores and two threads the $52 g40 962 or g-49 20 which differ in base clock speed by a hundred megahertz then there are the Pentium gold G 4500 G 5500 and G 5600 CPUs ranging from 3.7 to 3.9 gigahertz on two cores and four threads with prices at 70 183 and 93 dollars in the core line will be seeing the core i3 8300 a 4-quart or thread part a 3.7 gigahertz for 135 dollars basically this is just a hundred megahertz clock speed jump over the existing a380 100 for an extra $15 or so and then in the core i5 bracket we'll see two more six core 6/3 CPUs the i-5 8500 and I five 8600 turbo clocks are unknown for these CPUs right now however the i-5 8500 has a base clock of 3.0 gigahertz for $189 and the i-5 8600 has a 3.1 gigahertz base for 208 dollars these new core i5s build on the highly popular Core i5 8400 with 200 to 300 megahertz clock speed increases and better flesh out that range between the 8400 and the unlocked I 580 600 K currently the i5 8400 is available for $199 so the identically priced I 580 500 might be a great option once it's released it is worth noting that these aren't confirmed MSR peas it's just what the various retailers involved with the lake put out on their websites moving on to the quicker topics of the week Intel has announced they're working with top laptop areum's Microsoft Dell HP and Lenovo to bring a 5g connectivity to new laptops in the second half of 2019 I'm not an expert on 5g technologies by any means hopefully I'll learn a bit more and next week's Mobile World Congress but it's safe to assume this will bring high-speed connectivity devices that really should include some form of mobile networking these new laptops will of course use a 5g modem from Intel and they'll have a prototype on show at MWC next week while it'll be nice to have some 5g devices in 2019 like all mobile network developments it'll be up to the carriers to deploy adequate 5g networking before these devices actually become useful but you know it is a step towards better connectivity for all there were some stories earlier in the week on what many assumed was a prototype Intel discrete GPU as some of you may recall Intel does want to get into the discrete GPU market and they hide AMD's roger Kaduri to help make that a reality however the diagram floating around that looks like a potential discrete GPU prototype is actually not a discrete GPU at all instead as Intel later confirm the circuit they presented at the international solid-state circuits conference is actually a test platform for new power management systems the test circuit does include an integrated gen 9 GPU but it's not a discrete GPU prototype and Intel says this research is unrelated to their future discrete graphics products from the ever unreliable folks at WCC F Tech AMD is apparently working on seven nanometer epic service EPS that include up to 64 cores and 128 threads on a single package ambe's current epic line is built on a 40 nanometer process and tops out at 32 cores and 64 threads so pretty significant jump there this new epic line which is codenamed Rome will reportedly come in to die configurations 12 cores per day with 4 dies per package and 48 total calls along with 16 cores per day and again 4 dies per package for 64 cores apparently the lower 12 core per diversion is not simply a binned version of the 16 core variant but a different design entirely like most WCC f tec rumors let's take this one with a grain of salt or perhaps a few trillion grains a bit of pub G news to finish this one off apparently the development team was swamped trying to fend off hordes of cheaters in recent months such that you know new content was delayed but things might be easing off now as they've announced a few new updates coming to the game the first deals with improved matchmaking pub G will soon prioritize matchmaking between players with lower pings something that amazingly was not actually implemented either now later this year we'll be getting new content that will bring a deeper and more realistic gameplay experience whatever that means oh and new match will be unveiled in March and hopefully will please players more than the desert map that's it for this week's news corner give us a like if you enjoyed this segment probably won't be back next week as both Steve and I are away doing some cool stuff but we're back the week after that so I'll catch you then you