prepare yourself for some tech news and i'm talking to you keith
keith who felt like he didn't have to go to the bathroom but now that i'm
bringing it up he kind of does well there's no time because taiwan
semiconductor manufacturing co or tsmc is going to invest 25 billion dollars in
the development of 5 nanometer chip
technology this will allow them to keep their exclusive deal with apple to
supply the a series chips for the iphones and ipads of the future
five nanometer production is expected to start in 2020 but for now they are
ramping up commercial production on their seven nanometer node dismissing
that there were problems getting their mass production
up to speed by the end of the year tsmc expects to
be producing over 50 different seven
nanometer chips including apple's shiny new a12 as well as processors for AMD
NVIDIA qualcomm and bitmain
really the only company that seems to be missing from that list is Intel who are
still trying to get 10 nanometers to stick but at least they still have the
fastest consumer cpus on the market right right right well not if AMD has
anything to say about it the threadripper 2990x
is allegedly a 32 core 64 thread
processor that AMD showed off at computex without any mention of clock
speed but now a leak from a chinese source shows the exact specifications of
threadripper 2 including cinebench scores and if these are true it's going
to be one hell of a chip not like hell
like hot i mean i mean it'll probably run hot you know what i'm rolling with
it one hell of a chip apparently the threadripper 2990x will have a base
speed of three gigahertz an all core under load frequency of 3.4 and it'll
extended frequency range xfr up to 4.2
and when overclocked it's expected to do about 4.1 ish on all cores with liquid
cooling and allegedly hit 6 399 points in cinebench that's like four
and a half 8 700 k's all going at once
needless to say this thing will be a rendering beast and yes back to uh
it'll have a 250 watt TDP which is exactly why AMD
and cooler master announced a freshly
redesigned wraith ripper cooler which
should be more than enough for stock speeds but even that it's probably not enough to
overclock this thing the most important thing about it though is that it has
addressable RGB lighting since if cinebench scores don't
get your motor running flashing lights probably will
samsung has started production of an 8 terabyte SSD sporting 16 512 gig
packages on a new nf1 SSD form factor
samsung first showed these off in march with 8 and 16 terabyte drives shown but
now they're actually coming to market at first it was thought that the pci
express 4.0 interface would be used meaning that only supercomputers like
the ibm power9 could use it but samsung has clarified that it will be using the
pedestrian pci express 3.0 x4 interface
but that's not to take away from how insanely fast these things are there's
expected to be a 12 Gigabyte dram buffer on them i mean that
is more memory than many gamers have in
their whole system these drives will be aimed at large data sets and
virtualization servers with a 2u rack being able to house up to 72 of them for
over half a petabyte of storage in like
no more than this tall at this point there has been no mention of pricing but
we can assume that if you have to ask then you probably can't afford one and
now on to back quads
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valve has released its new knuckles vr controllers which should allow you to
precisely manipulate objects in vr every
finger is tracked with a combination of capacitive touch and four sensors
allowing users to virtually touch or even crush objects in the virtual world
the knuckles are expected to ship soon certainly a lot sooner than xbox vr or a
sonic game that anyone cares about back in 2016 phil spencer announced that the
xbox scorpio would support high-end vr and that they were in works
with oculus to make the virtual dream come true but now they have admitted
that there are no longer any plans for virtual reality i doubt anyone is that
surprised because it's just not that powerful and uh the second that phil
says something will be a feature for the exponent like connect drm policies or
good first party games it's basically a kiss of death
in what's maybe not a kiss of death so much as a kiss of i don't know
resignation Intel ceo brian krazanich
will be stepping down after having a consensual relationship with one of his
employees that fraternizing
bad boy Intel's cheap financial officer robert swann will be stepping in in the
meantime and this news hasn't appeared so far to have a large effect on Intel
stock prices meaning that that uh 23
thousand dollar a day salary that he was collecting back in 2017 may not have
been fully justified if anyone cares he's gone
after announcing on wednesday that facebook will be integrating auto
playing ads into their messenger app they have gone one step further now by
announcing that they will be testing paid subscriptions to private groups
this will give group admins a way to make money by engaging with their group
but with some of them getting as high as 30 dollars a month i have a hard time
figuring out how any facebook group could possibly be worth shelling out
that kind of cash for if you really need access to your paid group though you now
can do so from the chinese province of hainan what is that transition where the
chinese government plans to lift some internet censorship to make it a more
popular destination for tourism giving visitors access to websites like
facebook twitter and youtube although ironically users in china that have
commented on the plan have been censored so um comment down below and let us know
what you think about this and finally NVIDIA has joined the giveaway train
tossing 20 ceo edition titan vs to ai researchers
the card is basically a regular titan v but this time with a whopping 32
gigabytes of vram there's nothing to not like about this except that i didn't get
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washroom during that sponsor break but you were wrong invest in diapers that's
what i've been doing at my advanced age wow
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