1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,480 Starfield is now officially playable by gamers who bought the premium edition, 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:09,120 as long as they didn't also buy an Intel Arc graphics card. 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:14,640 Team Blue's GPUs are refusing to run the game, probably in protest against the boundaries on 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,040 planetary landings. I'm James Strive, this is TechLinked, and these are posts by Redditors 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:25,680 who tried to play Starfield on their Arc A770s and A750s, only to be met with a jumbled mess of 6 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:30,880 textures or simply a very angry task manager. On the platform that we're going to continue 7 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:36,560 referring to as Twitter, Intel said that they are aware of the issues with Starfield, 8 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,960 perhaps because they may have just learned that they're supposed to release a driver 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,960 to optimize the GPU's performance for one of the biggest game launches of the year. 10 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:50,160 They just found this out now! AMD released theirs yesterday, while NVIDIA, despite 11 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:55,040 Bethesda choosing AMD as the game's official PC partner, had theirs out over a week ago. 12 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:01,120 Even unpaid mod developers are more on the Starfield ball than Intel, with modern pure dark, 13 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:06,960 having already created a way to swap out AMD's FSR2 upscaling with NVIDIA's DLSS. 14 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:11,200 You know, the tech that AMD refuses to say whether Starfield is allowed to officially support, 15 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,520 but as Redditor brand underscore momentum points out, should we be calling out these 16 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:21,280 companies for messing with Starfield's launch, or the people who paid an extra $30 to play a game 17 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,920 five days early? It's like $6 a day, I'd bet. 18 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:31,040 Lenovo has officially unveiled the Legion Go handheld, as well as the Legion glasses, 19 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:37,600 which I did not ask for nor want. I've already spoken to them about this. It's clear from the Go specs that Lenovo is gunning for the ROG ally. 20 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:43,920 But in this economy, the more important detail is its starting price of $699 US dollars. 21 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:49,520 That's $700 for us, other people. It's the same price as the Ryzen Z1 Extreme-equipped ally, 22 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:54,800 even though it looks like the base tier Legion Go will have the Z1 non-extreme. 23 00:01:54,800 --> 00:02:01,760 In the EU, the Legion Go will start at 800 euros, either because Lenovo is planning to only sell higher end models in the region, 24 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,600 or because, say la vie, cooler with the questions. 25 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,920 Moving on, the handheld has a larger battery than the ally to hopefully fix one of the 26 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:15,200 major complaints about ASUS's device, and it has not one, but two USB 4 ports, 27 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,960 compared to the ally's single proprietary XG mobile port. 28 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,360 So you can actually connect to an external desktop GPU if you wish. 29 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:29,040 One of the most unique features is the FPS mode that turns the detachable right controller into 30 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,320 possibly the least comfortable mouse I've ever seen. 31 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:39,760 It launches in October, which might have been a bad business decision, given that it's only a single month until the launch of the highly anticipated PlayStation Portal. 32 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:46,720 It does one thing. Intel is accelerating the build out of its Arizona fab to prep for upcoming manufacturing 33 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:52,080 demand. According to Intel CEO Pat Coolcat Kelsinger, they already have a significant 34 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,680 customer prepayment for the fab's 18 angstrom process. 35 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,200 While we don't know who the customer is, we know they have enough sway to kick 36 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,640 18A production into gear by the second half of next year. 37 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:08,160 Meanwhile, in also Arizona, TSMC is struggling to launch their Phoenix-based chip fab. According 38 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:14,880 to inside sources at the TSMC site, the bosses from Taiwan weren't big fans of US safety codes 39 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:20,960 and regulations leading to incidents like workers spraying fireproofing chemicals right above workers 40 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,560 eating lunch, who did not bring fireproofing chemicals for lunch. 41 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,240 Now that sounds like a serious chemical exposure issue, but on the bright side, 42 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:29,760 not a single sandwich caught fire. 43 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,360 An expert has claimed TSMC's supposed skilled labor shortage 44 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:40,240 is their own fault for choosing to build their fab in an area with a labor shortage. 45 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:45,040 Also, unlike Intel, TSMC doesn't have existing relationships with universities 46 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,440 that can provide idealistic engineering graduates that they can psychologically break 47 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,360 with unreasonable work conditions. They just graduated from an engineering program. 48 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,200 They'll think it's normal. Here's your daily reminder that the quick bits love you. 49 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:05,600 Don't say it back. They already know. Gigabyte just unveiled a PCIe Gen 5 SSD that can achieve 12 gigabytes per second speeds, 50 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,440 because they didn't think that the 10 Gigabyte per second SSD they unveiled in April 51 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:17,920 was fast enough. The AORUS Gen 5 12000 SSD comes in 1TB and 2TB variants with a 2TB version 52 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:24,640 being slightly faster. The SSD is so fast, it needs a cooler that is over 4 centimeters tall. 53 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,560 That's a lot of centimeters for this. 54 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,600 Remember when computer components used to get smaller over time? 55 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,920 And have you seen the housing market? And bread's like a thousand dollars. 56 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,560 The houses aren't smaller. Hacking Group Anonymous Sudan, which is not an incognito car, 57 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:49,600 have taken credit for a series of DDoS attacks this week, hitting Twitter, fanfiction hub, archive of our own, again, and the French Postal Service. 58 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:56,720 Yes, they do have a Postal Service. However, the strike on Twitter seems to have been more of a pig tail pull to beg Elon Musk 59 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:02,080 to open Starlink in Sudan because the internet there is patchy due to an ongoing civil war. 60 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:08,160 Twitter was down only 45 minutes, AO3 less than 3 hours, and La Poste nearly 61 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:13,760 noof hours. That's how they say 9 there. In a stark demonstration of civilization's priorities, 62 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,080 rage, smut, and the mail in that order. 63 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:25,840 AMD's newest RX7700XT and 7800XT graphics cards support Team Red's fluid motion frames, 64 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:30,640 which is similar to NVIDIA's RTX 40 series exclusive frame generation. 65 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,480 But AMD's graphics captain Scott Herkelman, the best kind of Min, 66 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,800 said in a recent interview with Club 386 that the tech could be made available 67 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:44,080 to previous generation cards and even older cards from Team's RGNB, 68 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,520 depending on whether the tech gets good reception from gamers. 69 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:52,400 If it only gets medium reception, AMD will cancel the tech entirely out of embarrassment. 70 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,840 Huawei's spin-off brand and Prince Zuko's favorite word, 71 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:59,840 honor, unveiled the V-Purse. And it's very purse. 72 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:04,480 An outward folding smartphone that can also be worn as a clutch. 73 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,720 The device has interchangeable straps and chains to match any fit, 74 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:13,120 and the screen can be customized to look like a wide variety of different bags. 75 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,920 But why buy multiple purses when you can buy one that will break the moment you drop it? 76 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,080 But what a moment. She's a moment. She's an icon. She broke her phone. 77 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:26,320 Scientists are using a combination of live ants and age vampires too 78 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,400 to test whether it's better to have a small number of elite fighters 79 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,560 or a massive number of weak fighters, aka the Zerg Rush. 80 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,480 They first tested their hypothesis in Age of Empires because wild insects are typically 81 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,680 less cooperative than virtual infantry units. 82 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:46,800 They then pitted 200 tiny Argentine ants against 20 comparatively massive 83 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:53,120 Australian made ants. They eat them? The meat ants always won, but they had fewer casualties 84 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:58,480 when the terrain was more difficult and complex. In conclusion, if you're ever challenged to fight 10 angry toddlers, 85 00:06:58,480 --> 00:06:59,680 just do it on the jungle gym. 86 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:08,320 Give me my weekends back. But you don't have to fight anyone to get more tech news. 87 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:13,600 You just need to tune in on Monday. Make sure to come back or you'll break the quick bits hearts, you monster.