Solid evidence of NEW Video Cards!
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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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