**The Fastest CPU Ever Released: Intel Core i9-8900X**

Intel has just released its latest CPU, the Core i9-8900X, which promises to deliver unparalleled performance. But at what cost? With a price tag of $2,000, this CPU is not only the most expensive consumer CPU ever released but also outperforms all other CPUs in its class by about 30%. The Ripper benchmark test showed that it leaves even the high-end Threadripper processors in the dust.

The Core i9-8900X boasts impressive performance figures, making it a must-have for enthusiasts and professionals alike. Its price, however, raises questions about whether it's worth the investment. As one might expect, this CPU is geared towards those who require the very best performance possible from their system.

**Piracy Study Controversy**

A recent controversy has erupted in Europe regarding a study on piracy's impact on the film and video game industries. In 2013, a study was commissioned to investigate the effects of piracy on studio revenue. The results showed that piracy had a marginal effect, with an estimated 7.8% drop in revenue for movie studios. However, when it came to video games, the findings were different. After releasing the study's data, it was revealed that most of the information about gaming had been withheld.

The European Union initially suppressed this news, citing concerns over piracy's impact on the industry. But as more details emerged, it became clear that the actual correlation between piracy and revenue losses in the video game industry was negligible. In some cases, piracy even seemed to boost revenue by allowing gamers to try out games before purchasing them.

**Atari Revival**

In a surprise move, Atari has announced its plans to return to the console market with a new system called the "Atari Box". The console is expected to be released in spring 2018 and will feature an AMD APU. What sets this apart from other consoles is the company's intention to provide a more flexible user experience, akin to that of PC gaming.

Developers have expressed enthusiasm for the Atari Box, citing its potential for indie game development and creative freedom. The console is expected to cost between $250-$300 and will be an interesting departure from the traditional console market. With this move, Atari aims to tap into the growing demand for niche gaming experiences.

**Microsoft's Wearable Xbox**

In a bizarre move, Microsoft had initially planned to release a wearable Xbox device in 2013. The idea was that it would combine a fitness tracker with an Xbox experience, complete with a heart rate monitor and access to games played on your phone. However, when the Microsoft Lumina brand failed to gain traction, the plans were scrapped.

It's hard to imagine how this concept would have worked in practice, but it's clear that the idea was more of a novelty than a viable product. Thankfully, we won't see an Xbox wearable anytime soon.

**Closing Thoughts**

That concludes our look at the week's top tech news stories. From Intel's latest CPU release to Atari's console revival and Microsoft's wearable Xbox plans, there's been no shortage of interesting developments in the world of technology this week. Whether or not these innovations will live up to expectations remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: 2018 promises to be an exciting year for tech enthusiasts and gamers alike.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engood evening hello and welcome to another episode of this week in the news brought to you by my ridiculous morning hair I'm gonna be looking at a couple of stories today but first off Intel released an absolute beast today it's called the 79 80 X II it released a bunch of other processes as well but nobody's really interested in that now everybody knew that this was going to be released and that it was going to be an 18 core CPU as supposed to the the 16 core CPU of the AMD thread River which means this is gonna inevitably turn into a mine's bigger than yours competition but Intel is winning pretty spectacularly with this new CPU everybody thought it was going to be kind of like a marginally faster processor because it's only got two more cores but it beats everything in every benchmark hands down when it's overclocked it's when it becomes really impressive because then it even beats like i7 7700 KS in a single-threaded performance which is insane an 18 core process of beating a quad core kind of single threaded monster at its own game is pretty terrifying although when you do overclock it you do probably need to rent a nuclear reactor because it does use all of the power but you can get it up to like four point six to four point eight gigahertz on a teen course it's terrifying it seems though that the biggest limitation is the X 299 platform because the vrm overheats like crazy at this point and apparently reviewers have been saying that the biggest limitation when it comes to overclocking the 79 80 XE is the actual motherboard v RMS which is the wind because I don't think that's ever the case so they're gonna have to use model blocks and stuff to like lick call the BRM and then they'll be able to see how fast it actually is and another problem with Intel CPUs is that they use toothpaste between the actual dye and the integrated heat spreader so you're gonna have to deal it it and because it's a $2,000 CPU that's not going to be the most fun process because you know if you slip with your knife you're just gonna cut the CPU and off and that's terrifying oh yeah but I did forget to mention that it is a lot faster than everything it seems to be about 30% faster than thread Ripper pretty much across the board but it does cost to two thousand dollars so it's a thousand dollars more than anything in fact it's by far the most expensive CPU a consumer CPU ever released the previous crown went to the 69 50 X which was released for $1,500 which at that point people were like this is madness and then Intel just raised $2,000 in me but it is ridiculous this league recently been a huge controversy around the EU and the way that they've dealt with with some findings around the piracy study so 2013 there was a study commissioned to see what actual effect piracy has on the income of of movie studios and Game Studios and so on and the study was conducted all the way through 2014 and the results were released seemingly all of it so the EU released the study and it showed that there was a marginal effect I think the actual percentage was like was like a 7.8 percent drop in revenue for for movie studios when it came to to do pirating so if there's a huge amount of pirating they lose about seven percent which is tiny I mean Minh ever this issue is framed from that side from the movie studio side and they make it seem as though the the piracy industry is making them all go I mean you see you kind of imagine George Clooney sitting under a bridge and kind of trying to barter heroin off of some homeless guy because he doesn't have any money left because of pirates but it's seven percent so that's not a huge deal but the EU released that information but then it actually came out quite recently that they kind of hid most of the of the document because when it came to actual games when it came to two video games the findings actually couldn't find a statistically significant correlation between between piracy and its effect on the income of game industry or of the gaming industry in fact in some cases it seemed to actually help the gaming industry because people would pirate the games sort of as a demo play the game and they'd be like yeah this isn't completely horrible let me let me actually buy it from from from the mega so the EU actually tried to suppress that information and finally the last two quick stories to round off the day first of all Atari announced quite a while back that they're getting back into the console game and this left a lot of people pretty disinterested but it's starting to look like it's actually going to be quite a great little console it's gonna be called the Atari box and it looks great it's gonna have an AMD APU in it but the thing that's the most interesting is the developers attitude around the console so they said that usually consoles are quite quite a specific tied down experience you use one shop you use the Xbox thing and that's about it but Atari wants there to be a lot more flexibility around the console they wanted to be more like the PC that you plugged into your into your TV which sounds like a great idea and it's gonna cost between 250 and 300 dollars and it's gonna be potentially released in around spring of 2018 so it's going to be a while before we realise kind of how if they've delivered on on any of the promises or not and finally apparently Microsoft had plans to develop a wearable Xbox which is quite strange I don't really know how that would work but the plan was that when the whole wearable thing was exploding in 2013 I think the plans were Microsoft decided that the perfect wearable would be Xbox brand apparently was gonna have a heart rate monitor in it and it was gonna somehow have an Xbox experience I don't really know how you would play a game on a wearable but apparently it was supposed to be used in conjunction with with your phone but when the actual when the actual Lumina brand started falling apart because nobody wanted to buy a Microsoft phone they kind of scrap the plans for it it was supposed to be released in 2014 I am pretty glad it wasn't released because it sounds like quite a bad idea just generally anyway that's the end of this week in the news in the tech news sorry thank you very much for watching and I'll see you next weekgood evening hello and welcome to another episode of this week in the news brought to you by my ridiculous morning hair I'm gonna be looking at a couple of stories today but first off Intel released an absolute beast today it's called the 79 80 X II it released a bunch of other processes as well but nobody's really interested in that now everybody knew that this was going to be released and that it was going to be an 18 core CPU as supposed to the the 16 core CPU of the AMD thread River which means this is gonna inevitably turn into a mine's bigger than yours competition but Intel is winning pretty spectacularly with this new CPU everybody thought it was going to be kind of like a marginally faster processor because it's only got two more cores but it beats everything in every benchmark hands down when it's overclocked it's when it becomes really impressive because then it even beats like i7 7700 KS in a single-threaded performance which is insane an 18 core process of beating a quad core kind of single threaded monster at its own game is pretty terrifying although when you do overclock it you do probably need to rent a nuclear reactor because it does use all of the power but you can get it up to like four point six to four point eight gigahertz on a teen course it's terrifying it seems though that the biggest limitation is the X 299 platform because the vrm overheats like crazy at this point and apparently reviewers have been saying that the biggest limitation when it comes to overclocking the 79 80 XE is the actual motherboard v RMS which is the wind because I don't think that's ever the case so they're gonna have to use model blocks and stuff to like lick call the BRM and then they'll be able to see how fast it actually is and another problem with Intel CPUs is that they use toothpaste between the actual dye and the integrated heat spreader so you're gonna have to deal it it and because it's a $2,000 CPU that's not going to be the most fun process because you know if you slip with your knife you're just gonna cut the CPU and off and that's terrifying oh yeah but I did forget to mention that it is a lot faster than everything it seems to be about 30% faster than thread Ripper pretty much across the board but it does cost to two thousand dollars so it's a thousand dollars more than anything in fact it's by far the most expensive CPU a consumer CPU ever released the previous crown went to the 69 50 X which was released for $1,500 which at that point people were like this is madness and then Intel just raised $2,000 in me but it is ridiculous this league recently been a huge controversy around the EU and the way that they've dealt with with some findings around the piracy study so 2013 there was a study commissioned to see what actual effect piracy has on the income of of movie studios and Game Studios and so on and the study was conducted all the way through 2014 and the results were released seemingly all of it so the EU released the study and it showed that there was a marginal effect I think the actual percentage was like was like a 7.8 percent drop in revenue for for movie studios when it came to to do pirating so if there's a huge amount of pirating they lose about seven percent which is tiny I mean Minh ever this issue is framed from that side from the movie studio side and they make it seem as though the the piracy industry is making them all go I mean you see you kind of imagine George Clooney sitting under a bridge and kind of trying to barter heroin off of some homeless guy because he doesn't have any money left because of pirates but it's seven percent so that's not a huge deal but the EU released that information but then it actually came out quite recently that they kind of hid most of the of the document because when it came to actual games when it came to two video games the findings actually couldn't find a statistically significant correlation between between piracy and its effect on the income of game industry or of the gaming industry in fact in some cases it seemed to actually help the gaming industry because people would pirate the games sort of as a demo play the game and they'd be like yeah this isn't completely horrible let me let me actually buy it from from from the mega so the EU actually tried to suppress that information and finally the last two quick stories to round off the day first of all Atari announced quite a while back that they're getting back into the console game and this left a lot of people pretty disinterested but it's starting to look like it's actually going to be quite a great little console it's gonna be called the Atari box and it looks great it's gonna have an AMD APU in it but the thing that's the most interesting is the developers attitude around the console so they said that usually consoles are quite quite a specific tied down experience you use one shop you use the Xbox thing and that's about it but Atari wants there to be a lot more flexibility around the console they wanted to be more like the PC that you plugged into your into your TV which sounds like a great idea and it's gonna cost between 250 and 300 dollars and it's gonna be potentially released in around spring of 2018 so it's going to be a while before we realise kind of how if they've delivered on on any of the promises or not and finally apparently Microsoft had plans to develop a wearable Xbox which is quite strange I don't really know how that would work but the plan was that when the whole wearable thing was exploding in 2013 I think the plans were Microsoft decided that the perfect wearable would be Xbox brand apparently was gonna have a heart rate monitor in it and it was gonna somehow have an Xbox experience I don't really know how you would play a game on a wearable but apparently it was supposed to be used in conjunction with with your phone but when the actual when the actual Lumina brand started falling apart because nobody wanted to buy a Microsoft phone they kind of scrap the plans for it it was supposed to be released in 2014 I am pretty glad it wasn't released because it sounds like quite a bad idea just generally anyway that's the end of this week in the news in the tech news sorry thank you very much for watching and I'll see you next week