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monday's here and we've got some exciting news to help

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you deal with the reality of yet another work week micron has just announced that

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they've begun large scale production of gddr6 video memory which

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i mean this is memory that is specifically for video cards and there

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are no video cards shipping currently with it obviously so which probably

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indicates then an announcement of a new GPU or more from at least one of NVIDIA

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or AMD gddr6 is fast with microns parts

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delivering up to 56 gigabytes per second of bandwidth from a single package a 17

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increase over gddr5x but don't expect 17 more

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FPS in the latest titles i mean obviously better vram could help with

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handling high quality assets at very high resolutions but the big draw here

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is for ai and machine learning including self-driving cars as gddr6 has better

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parallelism than its predecessors maybe this will eventually help tesla pick the

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highway exit with the shortest drive-through line at mcdonald's

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hopefully for micron the money they make from gddr6 will offset a potentially

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huge fine they're facing from the chinese government the prc's

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anti-monopoly bureau first got micron on their radar last year when it noticed

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unusual patterns in the pricing of dram and now

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micron along with samsung and sk hynix are being accused of price fixing and

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since these three firms represent over 90 percent of the worldwide market for

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dram the consequences could be

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consequential the three companies are looking at up to

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eight billion us dollars

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in fines and i'm sure the chinese haven't forgotten that these companies

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already got themselves in hot water with american authorities in 2002 for a

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previous price fixing incident well i for what i'm stunned that the corruption

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goes all the way to the top levels of this industry

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speaking of the top levels microsoft has its sight set on a totally legal kind of

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fixing specifically fixing what it sees as problems with the usbc connector a

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microsoft patent was recently published entitled ultra thin usbc connector

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isn't that great so unlike some other patents we're not exactly in the dark as

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to what it is and what it might be used

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for although it will remain compatible with the current usb-c connector the new

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design features a new housing that's easier to install inside devices as it

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wouldn't need support plates and could be attached more directly with glue

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bolts or even just made part of the device chassis itself microsoft claims

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in the patent that the design would not only be more aesthetically pleasing but

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that it could reduce strain on the cable something that's led to the demise of

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many a charging cable in the past when it's bent off the side of a tablet

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although nothing's confirmed yet we could be seeing the slim down connector

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on new surface devices later this year i guess microsoft is trying to make losing

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weight for the winter a thing

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and now it's time for quick bites brought to you by ourselves specifically

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ltx 2018 our meetup and tech event that's coming up on july 14th at the

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richmond olympic oval here in beautiful british columbia that is if you believe

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what it says on our license plates meet the Linus tech tips team and

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participate in everything from a cable management challenge to a lan tournament

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to playing games in vr to trying out our 12k gaming station

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that's only a small amount of what's on offer so come and check it out tickets

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are just 35 canadian loonies which is whatever that converts to in your local

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currency plus cost of hotel food and airfare okay so it's not feasible for

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everyone but do your best now on to the quick bits for some reason

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microsoft is just now getting around to implementing mouse and keyboard support

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on lots of titles for the xbox one which includes a partnership with razer to add

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chroma support for games but if fancy lighting isn't your thing

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xbox one should support other keyboard brands as well speaking of games bose

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might have some more competition in the noise cancelling headphone space very

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soon as apple is reportedly releasing air pods with that technology next year

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as well as a more traditional full-sized pair

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what does this have to do with games

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pricing is currently unavailable but given that it's apple

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i highly doubt that your dreams of an affordable way to shut out irritating

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people around you will be coming any time soon

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and it sounds ha ha like apple was trying to drown out some

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unwanted noise of its own as they are now offering either free repairs or

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possibly refunds on previous repairs for

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users who experienced sticky macbook keys with a design flaw some folks paid

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over 700. for a fix that was well

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seems by their own admission squarely apple's fault crippling their budgets

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for more shiny eye devices with crappy repair policies of their own will

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someone please think of the children who own apple devices

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but something that won't cost nearly as much is the new flip grip a crowdfunded

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contraption that allows you to mount the nintendo switch vertically in your hands

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making for a better experience in traditional portrait-oriented arcade

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games like icarunga donkey kong and pac-man it costs 12 dollars to pre-order

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and liberate yourself from the scourge of vertical video that you deal with

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enough on youtube and instagram's new video thing and finally researchers at

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the university of michigan have set a new record for the world's smallest

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computer stealing the title back from ibm with a tiny cubic device measuring

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just point three millimeters on each size on each size point three

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millimeters for our yankee friends out there that's really small that means

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even a grain of rice absolutely dwarfs

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this thing the diminutive computer comes with processing RAM and io although even

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that slim type-c connector probably won't fit in it and might be used for

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medical applications in the future however there's no word yet if their

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rivals at ohio state have any plans to one-up the tiny system or

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one down it as it were and that's the news join us back here on

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wednesday for more scandal drama and tired jokes about apple