{"video_id":"fp_uKudByI3x1","title":"AMD's new Threadripper CPUs, AMD’s new 7900M mobile GPU, TSMC Flexes on Intel, + More!","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2023-10-21T04:37:00.022Z","duration_s":489,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":5.04,"text":"It's tech news time, a sacred tradition where we take a quiet moment to huddle around the screens","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.04,"end_s":11.28,"text":"and reflect on the fact that computers, oh, computers are crazy, man. And he says I can't wear this.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.28,"end_s":16.64,"text":"That's more like it. AMD today announced the newest Threadripper CPU family packing all the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.64,"end_s":23.04,"text":"cores a growing desktop needs to get big and strong. The top-of-the-line Threadripper Pro 7995WX","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.2,"end_s":29.36,"text":"features double the core and Thread count that the last generation's 5995WX had because","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":29.36,"end_s":33.28,"text":"bigger is better and we won't apologize for that. It's in our nature. We love them huge.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":34.72,"end_s":39.04,"text":"Perhaps even more exciting, at least for prosumers, is unlike the last generation,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":39.04,"end_s":44.24,"text":"there is a non-pro lineup meant for high-end desktop PCs for people that don't really need","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":44.24,"end_s":51.12,"text":"eight channels of DDR5 memory or 128 PCIe5 lanes. People who settle for a measly four channels","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":51.12,"end_s":60.24,"text":"and a paltry 48 PCIe5 lanes plus 32 lanes of PCI4. A 64-core Threadripper non-pro 7980X is a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":60.24,"end_s":66.56,"text":"veritable steal at $5,000. That's less than one and a half Apple headsets. Going back to the pro","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":66.56,"end_s":74.16,"text":"for a second, Dell actually let PCMag remotely test one of their new towers equipped with the 7995WX","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":74.16,"end_s":81.52,"text":"and it managed to score over $100,000 in Cinebench, a 56% improvement over the 5995WX,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":81.52,"end_s":86.72,"text":"and nearly double what Intel's Xeon W9 3495 managed to cough up.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":86.72,"end_s":91.12,"text":"And that's perhaps the problem with AMD's Threadripper Pro. Intel can't compete at all,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":91.12,"end_s":97.44,"text":"so instead AMD is competing with little-known competitor AMD and their epic CPUs. Time will","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":97.44,"end_s":106.0,"text":"tell if AMD can rise to AMD's challenge. Speaking of new chips, another company known as AMD just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":106.0,"end_s":112.08,"text":"announced a flagship mobile GPU, the RX 7900M, that holds both the title of world's first","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":112.08,"end_s":117.76,"text":"chip that designed GPU for mobile platforms and product with the most specific world's first","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":117.76,"end_s":125.04,"text":"achievement claim. The 7900M features a 180W power limit and 16GB of memory on a 256-bit bus","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":125.04,"end_s":131.52,"text":"and can boost beyond 2GHz, which is a lot. This card is a big deal since we haven't heard much of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":131.52,"end_s":138.4,"text":"anything from AMD about mobile graphics since they announced the RX 7600M XT and others back in January.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":138.4,"end_s":143.6,"text":"The 7900M is debuting on the Alienware M18 laptop and AMD is sending it to battle","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":143.6,"end_s":148.96,"text":"against NVIDIA's mobile 4080. Unlike most of AMD's first-party benchmarks where the company","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":148.96,"end_s":154.96,"text":"seems to stick their fingers in the ears and shout, la la la la, whenever ray tracing comes up,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":154.96,"end_s":162.24,"text":"they actually brought receipts this time. According to their specs, AMD's 7900M has a 2-6%","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":162.24,"end_s":167.52,"text":"lead over the 4080 in certain games like Resident Evil 4 and the Dead Space remake with ray tracing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":167.52,"end_s":174.08,"text":"enabled. Having said that, AMD may have used an inferior 4080 laptop, which is kind of like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":174.08,"end_s":179.76,"text":"winning a 100-meter dash against someone you love tapped with a steel pipe before the starting gun.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":181.2,"end_s":187.76,"text":"And even if the 7900M is the be-all and-all, the only laptop that currently features it is a $2,800","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":187.76,"end_s":194.0,"text":"Alienware laptop. Personally, I'm trying to save up for the Vision Pro here. That's like 0.96 Vision","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":194.0,"end_s":200.08,"text":"Pros. TSMC had some fighting words for Intel during the company's earnings call when CEO C.C. Way","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":200.16,"end_s":206.16,"text":"claimed the current 3-nanometer chip is way better than Intel's planned 1.8-nanometer tech,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":206.16,"end_s":211.2,"text":"which definitely shouldn't be the case according to the number laws, but TSMC might be right here","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":211.2,"end_s":217.28,"text":"because the nanometer amounts don't actually mean anything. They used to, but now manufacturers just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":217.28,"end_s":222.48,"text":"use them to refer to a chip's generation rather than transistor density or chip size. Because","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":222.48,"end_s":226.56,"text":"why should engineers care about units of measurement when they're working with small and delicate","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":226.64,"end_s":232.48,"text":"components? Well, welcome to chip manufacturing where Moore's law is dead and the numbers don't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":232.48,"end_s":239.12,"text":"matter. Brief tangent aside, it's quite bold of TSMC to predict this seeing as Intel's 1.8-nanometer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":239.12,"end_s":244.72,"text":"tech won't be available until 2025. Perhaps TSMC used vast sums of money and resources to make","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":244.72,"end_s":249.2,"text":"a time machine? That would explain why the time when he's found you is currently experiencing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":249.2,"end_s":255.68,"text":"its largest profit drop in five years. The poor company only managed to make a mere 17.28 billion","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":256.16,"end_s":261.6,"text":"in the third quarter, a number so small it caused the entire country of Canada to laugh so hard it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":261.6,"end_s":267.28,"text":"almost forgot about what studio apartments cost up here just almost. Fortunately, the good sports","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":267.28,"end_s":273.2,"text":"at TSMC say they're preparing for an upswing with CEO Way claiming there are early signs of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":273.2,"end_s":277.68,"text":"improvement in the smartphone and PC sectors. I know we're all rooting for them from the comfort","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":277.68,"end_s":282.56,"text":"of our parents' basements. Not too loud, my mom complains. Hey, this is a garden suite. 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Then, based on that threat level, Google either warns the user, blocks the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":314.32,"end_s":319.28,"text":"installation, or disables the app. Real-time scanning will help detect apps that haven't been","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":319.28,"end_s":324.32,"text":"put on the no-fly list yet and improve the experience for users who only side-loaded apps for the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":324.32,"end_s":328.8,"text":"thrill of getting these warnings. Ooh, I'm so nutty, they don't want me to use it. But at least you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":328.8,"end_s":334.24,"text":"can, Apple. Google's threat analysis group on Wednesday revealed details of a vulnerability in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":334.24,"end_s":339.2,"text":"Winrar being exploited by government actors to attack their enemies and, even worse,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":339.2,"end_s":345.28,"text":"being used by cybercriminals to target crypto bros trading Bitcoin. According to Google,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":345.28,"end_s":349.76,"text":"the exploit was used by Russian-backed groups targeting Ukraine and Chinese state hackers","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":349.76,"end_s":356.32,"text":"targeting Papua New Guinea for some reason. Or maybe this has all been a ruse and Winrar is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":356.32,"end_s":361.12,"text":"taking revenge on users who never paid for it after the free trial. God, no one's safe.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":361.12,"end_s":365.84,"text":"Even more Google news, the tech giant's mobile version of the video chat app Meet","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":365.84,"end_s":370.4,"text":"will now give you a touch-up by smoothing complexion, lightening those unsightly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":370.4,"end_s":376.32,"text":"dark bags under your eyes, and whitening your teeth just in time for Halloween.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":376.32,"end_s":379.6,"text":"But like the advanced editing features offered in Google Photos,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":379.6,"end_s":383.68,"text":"looking presentable will only be available to Google One subscribers, as well as various","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":383.68,"end_s":388.16,"text":"workspace account holders. Because people don't love having video meetings with a troll.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":388.16,"end_s":391.2,"text":"On the other hand, that might be a good reason to leave it turned off?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":392.96,"end_s":395.68,"text":"Shorter meetings. Put your troll on the table.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":396.4,"end_s":401.68,"text":"A new startup, Coop, is releasing a smart home for chickens for the kind of family that is sick","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":401.68,"end_s":408.72,"text":"of spending $6 a week on eggs, but can also afford a $2,000 high-tech chicken palace and a $20","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":408.72,"end_s":414.4,"text":"monthly app subscription. Geez. The CyberCoop comes with pre-installed smart Wi-Fi cameras,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":414.48,"end_s":421.04,"text":"an automatic door, and an AI Guardian named Albert Eggstein, that's real, that will count","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":421.04,"end_s":426.56,"text":"eggs and monitor the environment for potential predators like hawks or raccoons, rats, the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":426.56,"end_s":431.2,"text":"eggs, or children. According to Coop, they spent four weeks designing a compostable","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":431.2,"end_s":435.44,"text":"custom-fit poop tray because market research indicates that cleaning the coop is one of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":435.44,"end_s":441.28,"text":"biggest barriers for people who want to chickens. Which, yeah, no shit. No clucking. There's a lot","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":441.76,"end_s":447.76,"text":"And the hip new drink available now on Amazon is Release, which allegedly contains the discarded","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":447.76,"end_s":452.24,"text":"urine of Amazon drivers collected from the side of the highway. The new beverage, which","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":452.24,"end_s":457.28,"text":"reached number one bestseller in Amazon's bitter lemon soda category, is the brainchild","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":457.28,"end_s":462.64,"text":"of journalist Uba Butler, who created it for The Great Amazon Heist, a documentary exposing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":462.64,"end_s":466.8,"text":"the company's working conditions. In addition to Amazon failing to flag and prevent bottles of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":466.8,"end_s":471.44,"text":"barely disguised human piss from being sold on its platform, Butler had two little girls,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":471.44,"end_s":477.28,"text":"ages four and six, order knives, saws, and rat poison, buy a Alexa for a knife party.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":478.0,"end_s":482.24,"text":"And it's always knife when you come back on money for more tech news. Stay safe and don't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":482.24,"end_s":489.68,"text":"let Jeff Bezos send your children bladed weapons. That's the Amazon Base Six butterfly shank.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"It's tech news time, a sacred tradition where we take a quiet moment to huddle around the screens and reflect on the fact that computers, oh, computers are crazy, man. And he says I can't wear this. That's more like it. AMD today announced the newest Threadripper CPU family packing all the cores a growing desktop needs to get big and strong. The top-of-the-line Threadripper Pro 7995WX features double the core and Thread count that the last generation's 5995WX had because bigger is better and we won't apologize for that. It's in our nature. We love them huge. Perhaps even more exciting, at least for prosumers, is unlike the last generation, there is a non-pro lineup meant for high-end desktop PCs for people that don't really need eight channels of DDR5 memory or 128 PCIe5 lanes. People who settle for a measly four channels and a paltry 48 PCIe5 lanes plus 32 lanes of PCI4. A 64-core Threadripper non-pro 7980X is a veritable steal at $5,000. That's less than one and a half Apple headsets. Going back to the pro for a second, Dell actually let PCMag remotely test one of their new towers equipped with the 7995WX and it managed to score over $100,000 in Cinebench, a 56% improvement over the 5995WX, and nearly double what Intel's Xeon W9 3495 managed to cough up. And that's perhaps the problem with AMD's Threadripper Pro. Intel can't compete at all, so instead AMD is competing with little-known competitor AMD and their epic CPUs. Time will tell if AMD can rise to AMD's challenge. Speaking of new chips, another company known as AMD just announced a flagship mobile GPU, the RX 7900M, that holds both the title of world's first chip that designed GPU for mobile platforms and product with the most specific world's first achievement claim. The 7900M features a 180W power limit and 16GB of memory on a 256-bit bus and can boost beyond 2GHz, which is a lot. This card is a big deal since we haven't heard much of anything from AMD about mobile graphics since they announced the RX 7600M XT and others back in January. The 7900M is debuting on the Alienware M18 laptop and AMD is sending it to battle against NVIDIA's mobile 4080. Unlike most of AMD's first-party benchmarks where the company seems to stick their fingers in the ears and shout, la la la la, whenever ray tracing comes up, they actually brought receipts this time. According to their specs, AMD's 7900M has a 2-6% lead over the 4080 in certain games like Resident Evil 4 and the Dead Space remake with ray tracing enabled. Having said that, AMD may have used an inferior 4080 laptop, which is kind of like winning a 100-meter dash against someone you love tapped with a steel pipe before the starting gun. And even if the 7900M is the be-all and-all, the only laptop that currently features it is a $2,800 Alienware laptop. Personally, I'm trying to save up for the Vision Pro here. That's like 0.96 Vision Pros. TSMC had some fighting words for Intel during the company's earnings call when CEO C.C. Way claimed the current 3-nanometer chip is way better than Intel's planned 1.8-nanometer tech, which definitely shouldn't be the case according to the number laws, but TSMC might be right here because the nanometer amounts don't actually mean anything. They used to, but now manufacturers just use them to refer to a chip's generation rather than transistor density or chip size. Because why should engineers care about units of measurement when they're working with small and delicate components? Well, welcome to chip manufacturing where Moore's law is dead and the numbers don't matter. Brief tangent aside, it's quite bold of TSMC to predict this seeing as Intel's 1.8-nanometer tech won't be available until 2025. Perhaps TSMC used vast sums of money and resources to make a time machine? That would explain why the time when he's found you is currently experiencing its largest profit drop in five years. The poor company only managed to make a mere 17.28 billion in the third quarter, a number so small it caused the entire country of Canada to laugh so hard it almost forgot about what studio apartments cost up here just almost. Fortunately, the good sports at TSMC say they're preparing for an upswing with CEO Way claiming there are early signs of improvement in the smartphone and PC sectors. I know we're all rooting for them from the comfort of our parents' basements. Not too loud, my mom complains. Hey, this is a garden suite. Fun fact, before TechLinked, the record for quickest bit was set by Jerry Seinfeld in the late 80s when he said, what's the deal with airplane food? It's over 300 years old. Google has updated its Play Protect features on Android to conduct real-time scans of side-loaded apps at the code level instead of the service level scans they were doing before. Previously, Play Protect would check the app you're trying to smuggle into your phone like some kind of delinquent against the existing list of problematic apps. Then, based on that threat level, Google either warns the user, blocks the installation, or disables the app. Real-time scanning will help detect apps that haven't been put on the no-fly list yet and improve the experience for users who only side-loaded apps for the thrill of getting these warnings. Ooh, I'm so nutty, they don't want me to use it. But at least you can, Apple. Google's threat analysis group on Wednesday revealed details of a vulnerability in Winrar being exploited by government actors to attack their enemies and, even worse, being used by cybercriminals to target crypto bros trading Bitcoin. According to Google, the exploit was used by Russian-backed groups targeting Ukraine and Chinese state hackers targeting Papua New Guinea for some reason. Or maybe this has all been a ruse and Winrar is taking revenge on users who never paid for it after the free trial. God, no one's safe. Even more Google news, the tech giant's mobile version of the video chat app Meet will now give you a touch-up by smoothing complexion, lightening those unsightly dark bags under your eyes, and whitening your teeth just in time for Halloween. But like the advanced editing features offered in Google Photos, looking presentable will only be available to Google One subscribers, as well as various workspace account holders. Because people don't love having video meetings with a troll. On the other hand, that might be a good reason to leave it turned off? Shorter meetings. Put your troll on the table. A new startup, Coop, is releasing a smart home for chickens for the kind of family that is sick of spending $6 a week on eggs, but can also afford a $2,000 high-tech chicken palace and a $20 monthly app subscription. Geez. The CyberCoop comes with pre-installed smart Wi-Fi cameras, an automatic door, and an AI Guardian named Albert Eggstein, that's real, that will count eggs and monitor the environment for potential predators like hawks or raccoons, rats, the eggs, or children. According to Coop, they spent four weeks designing a compostable custom-fit poop tray because market research indicates that cleaning the coop is one of the biggest barriers for people who want to chickens. Which, yeah, no shit. No clucking. There's a lot And the hip new drink available now on Amazon is Release, which allegedly contains the discarded urine of Amazon drivers collected from the side of the highway. The new beverage, which reached number one bestseller in Amazon's bitter lemon soda category, is the brainchild of journalist Uba Butler, who created it for The Great Amazon Heist, a documentary exposing the company's working conditions. In addition to Amazon failing to flag and prevent bottles of barely disguised human piss from being sold on its platform, Butler had two little girls, ages four and six, order knives, saws, and rat poison, buy a Alexa for a knife party. And it's always knife when you come back on money for more tech news. Stay safe and don't let Jeff Bezos send your children bladed weapons. That's the Amazon Base Six butterfly shank."}