Intel prepares to SLAM AMD!
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·2021-05-05
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- This is driving me crazy. Cause I got this feeling something important happened today.
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And I just, I can't remember. It's like, it's a political thing.
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All right. The white house website got dark mode.
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Neat. LG is thinking about ditching the smartphone business,
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according to the Korean,
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according to CEO kwon Bong-Seok, The Korean Herald reported
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that the company's big cheese revealed in a message to staffers, that it is about time
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for LG to make a cold judgment regarding a sale, withdrawal
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and downsizing of the company smartphone business in response to fierce competition.
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But this news comes only a week after LG teased their rollable smartphone at CES.
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Now what are we supposed to do with that thing? Stick it at our pipes and smoke it.
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Kwon's considering the move because of his self-perceived failure
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to make LG's mobile division profitable by 2021.
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I mean, I don't know who made the decision to tie the wacky flip-up LG wing in with "Songbird",
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that horrible looking movie about COVID starring the guy from "Riverdale" but,
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that probably didn't help either, bad decisions, they haunt you forever, right?
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Fresh leaks of Intel's Alder Lake-S processors are haunting the internet, specifically
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a 16 core model with DDR5 memory, that does sound spooky.
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An entry in the SiSoftware database described a hybrid design processor that has shown up in leaks before.
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It's got eight high performance, hyper-threading capable cores, in addition
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to eight power efficient cores for a total of 24 threads.
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But the presence of DDR5 is a new detail
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as is the chips boost clock of 4 GHz, allowing this sample to perform substantially better
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than the one shown in previous leaks. Now, these are desktop processors and I'm not sure
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what use efficiency cores will have when, you know,
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battery life isn't really in the picture, but hey, maybe Intel knows something I don't,
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I certainly hope Intel knows something I don't. And a week after announcing the RTX 3060,
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NVIDIA may be planning to reintroduce the RTX 2060
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and 2060 super into the market. French enthusiast site, overclocking.com claims
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that sources have told them NVIDIA has distributed new GPU stock
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to board partners as a way to have something,
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anything on shelves that gamers can actually freaking buy.
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If this is true, it's pretty ridiculous.
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I mean the GPU stock shortage has gotten apparently this bad
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to the point where we are re releasing old products so consumers have some way to spend their money.
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In case you were hoping for a deal, it looks like the RTX 3060 may not launch
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with a founder's edition which means that most cards will be priced above the 3060's, $329 MSRP.
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Maybe we were wrong. Maybe we all should have pre-ordered these cards
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when they launched. Now look at us, poor schmucks.
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Now it's time for the Graphics Bites, brought to you by MANSCAPED, the men's grooming company
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that doesn't want you to let Nixon cuts ruin your Valentine's day.
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oh, God heavens. MANSCAPED's perfect package 3.0 features,
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they're awesome lawnmower 3.0 waterproof body trimmer and a whole lot of other goodies,
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like their new refined cologne, it's hypoallergenic
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and has a super subtle yet enticing woodsy scent
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that's a perfect compliment to the scent in other MANSCAPED products.
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All right, time for the graphics Bites, ever heard of them? The European commission has issued fines,
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totaling 7.8 million euros against Valve
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and five steam publishers, including ZeniMax, Capcom and Bandai Namco.
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The EC says that the company's restricted sales in some European regions, but not others,
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which is against EU antitrust rules.
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Valve plans to appeal of course, saying that geoblocking actually helps prevent publishers
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from raising prices in less affluent regions. But regardless, if the fines go through,
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it shouldn't be too much of a burden thanks to that sweet, sweet Dota money.
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- [Man] Only works in the game though. - [Presenter] And M1 Mac book users are complaining about
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a Macalester big server that activates the screen saver
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and renders laptop unusable. Huh, should have bought a Windows laptop.
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They don't have any bugs, like, for instance, that crashes your whole PC
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when you open a certain path, and file Explorer, PCMR bro.
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Virgin orbit has finally managed to live up to their name
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with the successful launch of the LauncherOne rocket
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into orbit becoming the first company to do so with a liquid fueled rocket deployed from a 747.
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Looks like Richard Branson will finally get his access card
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to the super secret billionaire space station where Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend
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all their time probably, glaring at each other.
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But living longer, you know that right? - [Man] Thanks to relativity.
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- [Presenter] The company formerly known as Oculus, Facebook reality Labs is apparently researching
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a way to reduce the screen door effect in VR headsets, involving rapidly
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and minutely shifting the entire display.
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So basically, they're gonna make a vibrator that goes right on your face.
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Sounds horrible or great, depending on what you want the headset for.
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And the Japanese researchers have developed a super conducting processor said
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to be 80 times more efficient than traditional seven nanometer alternatives.
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And if that doesn't get you excited enough this bad boy is made
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of super conducting niobium and built from adiabatik quantum-flux-parametrone.
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Is that a real word? What is this line? I mean there's more
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than 20,000 Joseph's injunction switches.
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Woo, woo, it's getting hot in here.
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I gotta take off my LTT Store merch. Ah, this tech news, you know what,
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it's too much, it's too hot to continue. So come back on Friday for more tech news
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which will also be very hot because we have only the hottest news for you,
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the very hottest viewers, we can finally joke about it.
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- [Man] Oh, man, it's like nostalgic now.