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welcome back to the hardware box news corner I guess that's plus we've covered a massive amount of news so far this week including everything Intel announced at their processor launch and recent fiasco involving principal technology so there's definitely not as much to cover in news corner this week but there's still some interesting things we haven't touched on so let's get straight into it I guess the biggest non Intel related news story this week surrounds TSM C's 7 nanometer manufacturing as I'm sure most of you aware tsmc has been volume manufacturing 7 nanometer chips for around half a year now including the Apple a12 Bionic SOC for the latest iPhones and of course we're set to get a whole suite of new AMD products on seven nanometers shortly including seven nanometer Vega for compute cards next gen epic and of course Zen too for consumer desktop but TSMC are already moving on to the next big step for seven nanometers which is the introduction of extreme ultraviolet or UV lithography which will be used for elements of their seventh animated production pipeline current seven nanometer chips are manufactured using deep ultraviolet lithography but the move to a UV has been long waited in the industry and is basically a requirement to go smaller than seven nanometers so TSMC are using it for non-critical layers in a second generation seven nanometer node called 7f f plus an antique has a great article that describes the more technical details of 7f f + + YT SMC are using a UV for this node but it sounds like it will bring small improvements over their first gen 7 nanometer node - to the limited use of a UV there are no claims about performance but we should expect 20% higher transistor density and between 6 and 12 percent lower power consumption relative to 1st gen 7 nanometer there should be particularly handy for mobile chips that need all the power savings they can get TSMC has already taped out the first chip built on their second chance 7 nanometer node and they're also planning to specialized it into another process designed specifically for automotive customers considering it's already taped out it shouldn't be too long before it moves into a high-volume phase TSMC also provided an update on their next generation five nanometer node which is on track for 2020 or thereabouts five nanometer will use EUV on up to 14 layers which should provide a handy booster density and an 80% increase compared to their first gen 7 an ohmmeter TSMC are also predicting 15% more performance at the same power or 20% lower power consumption at the same performance risk production of 5 nanometers is expected to begin in April of 2019 so from what TSMC is saying it sounds like they aren't having any significant issues with 7 nanometers or development on 5 enemies which is great news for the future of hardware for both AMD and NVIDIA who both rely on the company's fabs this one is just for interest sake more than anything Intel has managed to overclock a core i 9 9900 k2 6.9 gigahertz on all course with the help of liquid nitrogen and some extreme overclocking experts until also claims that hits 7.1 gigahertz all core and 7.4 gigahertz single core in their internal testing and of course with further tweaking we'll see those numbers client post-launch these figures don't tell us really anything about how the 900k will fit in overclocking a typical user will actually be able to do with an air or liquid cooler but it's interesting to see what these chips are capable of in the hands of professional overclockers and certainly there's records being broken for eight core CPUs there earlier this week Microsoft completely stuffed up the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 update otherwise known as version 1809 because Microsoft loves to use long update names the update was supposed to begin a wide rollout several days ago but users choosing to update early we're discovering that their files in My Documents were being deleted during the update process not everyone was experiencing this issue but certainly a small number of people were posting about this on various places obviously that's bad news so Microsoft decided to pause the rollout for a couple of days apparently plenty of windows insider members had warned Microsoft of the issue when testing beta versions of the update months ago Microsoft chose to ignore them well how was the huge mistake on their part because the issue reared its head during the public rollout seems pretty dumb with Microsoft to ignore their beta test were saying maybe they just assumed it was limited to a small collection of testers anyway Microsoft resumed the roller a couple of days with the issue fixed the company said that 0.01% of users were affected which is Kip guru points that could be around 700,000 users worldwide considering Windows 10 700 million installed base apparently the bug was caused by something called known folder redirection being confused with known folder migration version 1809 was supposed to clean up empty duplicate known folders but end up deleting the original folders instead thanks to this confusion Microsoft says those that are affected by the bug in the initial rollout should contact customer support because data recovery is still an option IOC has renounced their free sync to hgr monitor for the US market indicator display is almost ready to ship for those that are interested AAC first announced the AG 322 QC four back in April as a 27-inch 1440p 144 hertz curved ova display sporting free sync to HDR and display HDR 400 certification without local dimming I don't think the HDR experience will be all that flash but at least with free sync to HDR certification we know we're getting at least 90 percent DCI p3 coverage for a wider than standard color gamut the monitor is already available in Europe but we now know it'll be heading it to the US for $550 on October 15 and that seems like a fairly respectable price if the HDR experience is at least slightly or somewhat better than just basic SDR microsoft are in the final stages of acquiring game studio obsidian entertainment according to a report from kotaku you think the move will help them bolster their lineup of exclusive Xbox / PC tiles which is currently is struggling to compete with the quality of Sony's astonishing lineup to the ps4 and they're already shown they're interested in acquiring game studios of late they've already purchased playground the studio behind it forts of horizon and Ninja Theory who developed hell-blade sinuous sacrifice obsidian entertainment is best known for their role-playing games including Knights of the Old Republic - Fallout New Vegas and more recently pillars of eternity 1 & 2 they almost went bankrupt a few years ago as well so with the history of making solid role-playing games would be interesting to see what the studio could cook up with a larger budget and the of Microsoft certainly very exciting times for that particular studio and their games final story of the week I guess this would be a short episode concerning what I've covered so far Microsoft has raised the price of official Windows 10 home licenses from a hundred dollars two hundred and forty dollars on the Windows Store no idea why they've made this change but they have not that you should be buying licenses through the Windows Store when you egg and other retailers are still selling official home Oh am case for the old a hundred dollar price so definitely still check out for those sort of official om type deals Windows 10 Pro will still set you back two hundred dollars and no we don't recommend purchasing those sub $50 super dodgy windows keys from dodgy online retailers that's it for this week's news corner pretty much an entire week of news on hardware unbox which has been fun so we'll be back to some good old-fashioned testing in the next few days subscribe to get news corn in your inbox every Friday and hit that Bell icon to ensure you see 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