Staying Up-to-Date: Recent News and Developments

Recent news and developments have been making headlines in various fields, including technology, politics, and social issues. In this article, we will explore some of the most significant stories that have emerged in recent times.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Xtreme Release

The wait is finally over for gamers and computer enthusiasts who have been eagerly awaiting the release of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Xtreme. This powerful graphics card promises to deliver unparalleled performance and features that will take gaming to the next level. With its advanced cooling system, increased memory capacity, and improved power delivery, this card is expected to be a game-changer in the world of computer hardware.

However, not everyone is excited about the release of the RTX 3090 Xtreme. Some have raised concerns about the potential environmental impact of the card's production and the fact that it may contribute to climate change. Additionally, there are worries about the cost of the card, which may be out of reach for many consumers.

Despite these concerns, NVIDIA has assured fans that the RTX 3090 Xtreme is designed with sustainability in mind and will have a lower carbon footprint compared to its predecessor. The company has also pledged to support responsible manufacturing practices and reduce waste throughout the production process.

Massachusetts Right to Repair Act

In a significant development for consumers and manufacturers alike, Massachusetts has become the first state to pass a right-to-repair law that applies to electronics. This legislation, which was recently passed by the state's legislature, requires manufacturers to provide diagnostic service and repair guides for certain products, as well as make tools and parts available for sale.

The passage of this law marks an important milestone in the push for consumer rights and greater transparency in the technology industry. Advocates argue that right-to-repair laws like this one will help reduce electronic waste, promote sustainability, and give consumers more control over their personal property.

iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens: Right to Repair Activism

Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, has been a vocal advocate for right-to-repair legislation in Massachusetts. In an interview with Lewis Hilsenteger, founder of iFixit, Wiens emphasized the importance of giving consumers the power to repair their own devices.

"We believe that this law is a huge step forward for consumer rights and for sustainability," Wiens said. "It's about creating a more circular economy, where products can be repaired and reused instead of being discarded and replaced."

Wiens also highlighted the benefits of right-to-repair legislation for manufacturers, citing examples of companies like Apple that have benefited from similar laws in other states.

Apple Avoids Warranty Voiding

In contrast to some manufacturers, Apple has not been subject to warranty voiding programs or other forms of punishment for attempting to restrict repairs. However, this may change with the passage of Massachusetts' right-to-repair law.

Under the new legislation, manufacturers will be prohibited from blocking repairs on a software level or potentially using firmware that "kills" themselves when attempted repair is detected. This could have significant implications for companies like Apple, which have traditionally been resistant to consumer repair efforts.

Right to Repair Activism and Planned Obsolescence

The push for right-to-repair legislation is closely tied to concerns about planned obsolescence and the environmental impact of consumer electronics. By giving consumers the power to repair their own devices, advocates argue that we can reduce waste, promote sustainability, and create a more circular economy.

As one iFixit employee noted, "We're not just talking about fixing phones or laptops; we're talking about creating a new business model where products are designed to be repaired and reused, rather than discarded and replaced."

Louis Rossman: Right to Repair and the Future of Electronics

Lewis Rossman, a prominent right-to-repair activist, has been advocating for legislation like Massachusetts' law for years. In an interview with iFixit's Lewis Hilsenteger, Rossman emphasized the importance of giving consumers control over their personal property.

"The idea is that we're not just talking about repairing phones or laptops; we're talking about creating a new paradigm where products are designed to be sustainable, repairable, and extendible," Rossman said. "This isn't just about consumer rights; it's about creating a more responsible and sustainable technology industry."

By promoting right-to-repair legislation and education, advocates hope to create a cultural shift in the way we approach technology and electronics. As one iFixit employee noted, "It's not just about fixing devices; it's about changing the way we think about technology and the impact it has on our lives."

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eneveryone welcome back to another hardware news recap for the week for this one we have a good amount of news but the number one item for us is the AMD 3990 X that we have managed to secure from another reviewer it's been overnight shift so that we can hopefully get it in time for some liquid-nitrogen live streams with Joe step on Z so Joe step on Z will be visiting he's from bearded hardware he's been here before and we're doing streams on Sunday of this weekend the time for that will be 1 p.m. est Sunday for the 3990 Xtreme if you want to watch us lap the 3970 X that's already up other things to talk about for this week's recap include AMD has apparently lost the battle against Intel that's gonna be a fun story preservation of old flash games and animations and video g-force now exiting beta and stadia being a good marketing point for it Intel reportedly preparing cascade like refreshes and aim the x86 CPU market share games before that this video is brought to you by EVGA SRT X 20 atti XE ultra the 20 80 TI XE ultra is what we use in our CPU reviews to avoid GPU bottlenecks the XE ultra uses hydraulic dynamic bearing fans for reduce the noise features a RT X support for DX our titles and uses a massive 2.75 slot cooler the cooler design allows the fans that's been slower and quieter while syncing heat further leveraging a mix of l-shaped and traditional fins to maximize airflow or contact learn more at the link in the description below so the first one is that 39 90 X story well we were probably pushing this video Friday night we're filming at Friday and that means you'll have time hopefully to catch the stream Sunday Joe has brought a few things he's brought a 39 70 X and we're going to be lapping that so you'll be able to get a fun CPU lapping video where we basically will be sending off the top of a HS get it down to bare copper and then sanding down his LM 2 pots as well so we get better contact for liquid nitrogen stuff that said the original plan was to also overclock that CPU this weekend but it looks like we might be changed that we knew the 39 DX was launching what we weren't sure about was if it be possible to get one in time for Joe's already planned visit so I you're looking around a lot considering a day trip to Micro Center four and a half hours away and back we did end up getting another youtuber who could send it to us and so you can guess who that is as stated but yeah we'll have that on loan and then we'll do a review of the CPU as well okay so the leading story is coverage of some questionable writing so AMD has lost apparently and Daniel Newman the principal analyst at Futurama research has attempted a hot take and an opinion piece over at Market Watch there's a lot to unpack in the article which for the most part does have some actually demonstrable false statements in it but we'll just go with a few of our favorites sort of like a greatest hits of the article so the title reads why am these best days are behind it and it should really tell the readers everything that they need to know but the following paragraphs are still kind of fun to look at we could make the argument that am these worst days are behind it not its best days because you know there was a period where Andy was nearly bankrupt after buying ATI it was unable to produce a competitive GPU that's sort of changed not they still have a lot of issues there but had trouble with GPUs it had bulldozer and piledriver and all these failed CPUs that were just objectively bad and also by the way it was involved in a class-action lawsuit that it's recently settled so Andy didn't really have great days maybe about six years ago so more like worse days are behind it there's one more point to to pile onto that which is that AMD at one point had to sell its campus its own campus and lease it back from the new owner of the campus because it needed a temporary cash injection that's how bad it was for Andy it was very close to not existing anymore so the subheading reads AMD had a shot to catch Intel and blew it so Andy doesn't really need to directly catch Intel it's readily apparent that the disparity in the size of the two chip makers is lost on market watch here and he is accompanied with a fifty 9.04 billion dollar market cap Intel runs 285 point five five billion so and he can't catch Intel in three years time more specifically not inside of the 18-month window of quote when its chip making rival was wounded as Market Watch puts it so as we talked about last week and as we further elaborate on later here Andy continues to win back x86 CPU market share Andy is holding both a technology and a process note lead via its partnerships over Intel TSMC is making it all look bad these days and furthermore the market watch comments that epic should quote have made significant gains and servers and that AMD quote made only a few small dent in Intel's business are not really accurate something to remember here AMD first of all Intel is a beast and Andy doesn't have an easy fight and ultimately what we want to see is Intel now put something out that's directly competitive with and these desktop stuff because we want them to fight directly head-to-head so both the companies really need to have their best foot forward for everybody but something to remember here is that AMD has effectively gone from zero market share in server to five percent in a couple of years and five percent might sound small but considering going from nearly zero for a company the size of AMD as compared to the size of Intel that 5% means a lot more for AMD than it does for Intel and so from a these standpoint that's a pretty significant growth so mark your watch fails to keep a few of these things in mind and the operates at a fraction of Intel's R&D budget I consider that Intel earns more in a single quarter than AMD net in an entire year and you begin to see the uphill battle that AMD faces and just like in benchmarks this is in a lot of ways about relative comparisons not necessarily absolute comparisons because you're looking at relative gains in this instance in the market but just in technology - so these wins mean a lot for a relatively small company like AMD its earnings in 2019 illustrate that effectively mark watch continued to say quote now Intel is shoring up production announcing the pricing updating its data center chips introducing 5g pcs okay and expanding to be far more than a chip company Intel's not really it's not really been a it's been more of a manufacturer than anything since beginning it was founded as a manufacturing company but anyway Intel apparently shoring up production for over a year now and it still hasn't rectified its pervasive 40 nanometers shortage in fact some of its customers are predicting those shortages will persist for most of 2020 like HP Enterprise despite and these own troubles anticipating demand and securing wafers it continues to ship products when Intel can't and tsmc is is the limiting factor there since it's splitting its wait for someone equally between his customers additionally Intel's lower pricing and quote updated datacenter chips or a direct response to Andy's epic and thread Ripper in a lot of ways these chips might have existed anyway but the pricing wouldn't have been where it is today so Neumann extolled Intel for being back on track but ultimately it's got plenty of its own issues like Intel security vulnerabilities which we have covered almost weekly in hardware news at this point new ones every couple months and then follow-ups to those regularly so you can ask the server vendors how they've dealt with mitigations on a lot of those and that another quote here I believe Intel is now the firm better positioned to deliver the sales and profitability investors are looking for that's bad news for those holding AMD stock and many have yet to realize just how bad it will be so this from the same writer who warned investors to be skeptical of anthea stock price last year when it was trading for $30 per share by the way it's now trading for about $50 per share as of this writing so the very least market watch is probably used to eating its own words by now now Andy has a lot of trouble its GPU department really isn't doing it any favors right now and just just kind of floundering around making the rest of Andy look that the CPU department is doing well but it can't stop obviously Xen to produce greater gains than we expected but overall as then matures and these potentially going to end up in a situation where Intel was a couple years ago where every CPU has a risk of potentially being unexcited so we'll see how Andy deals with that perhaps it's using the chip approach the things are different these days perhaps it's able to maintain greater gains per architecture that Intel was able to once it started hitting that 4,000 series on beyond where you go to 4790k 6700 K 77 RK they all sort of felt the same the questions going to be whether AMD can keep ahead of that and prevent it from happening to it as well as a in these process matures because jumping from bulldozer to Xen obviously easy mode to get the gains as compared to going from Xen to does n3 where Andy's already done so much optimization so all this to say and the has a lot of struggle and if Margot wanted to write about that there's a lot of really interesting stories in there that they could talk about from a technology standpoint but it's a market analysis website and they sort of missed all of it flashpoint is up next so for those who cut their computing teeth on CRT monitors and beige-colored everything you likely remember the advent of a technology called flash even at a time when it was a macro media product and before that a futurewave product and I guess later on an Adobe acquired product when Adobe bought half the Internet but it was a different time so once upon a time the internet was made up of boring static web pages and it required flash to add multimedia and interactivity for things such as video audio animations and games even YouTube used flash and it's early days for compressed video flash is set to go end-of-life this year the fact that it's still alive is probably a bit of a surprise for a lot of people but it's been phased out and as the deprecated platform has been lawn outshined by newer web api's and html5 flash has been dying a slow death with browser support fading as it becomes all but non-existent search engines like Google won't even index results with flash content anymore even Adobe more or less washed its hands of Flash when it introduced Adobe animates it's been one slow nail in the coffin after another for flash so as with many technologies that vanish from the Internet all history from a different time of computing vanishes with them love it or hate it flash did define an Internet era and when it dies so to do thousands of games and animations that were so popular at the time so that's what blue Maxima is trying to prevent with flashpoint flashpoint to date has scraped together an Internet Archive of 38,000 games and 2400 animations flashpoint uses an open-source launcher and a few tricks to emulate old flash browser games instead of running flash natively the launcher currently comes packaged either as a standalone application where you download the games you want to play them locally or as a complete package where all of the games are playable offline since we're here we might as well also direct your attention to another flash preservation project called ruffle which is ongoing if any of this stuff has sparked nostalgia and you and you want to visit some of the old games you played and video g4s now is finally exiting its beta in the next story so we were talking about this at the office the other day and Google stadia was probably the best marketing that Nvidia could have had for a GeForce now GeForce now has been around forever it used to be called grid back in the day and during that time we actually covered it at a few locations where Nvidia had small servers at trade shows and would run on-site demonstrations of game streaming these were never particularly impressive but it was a very interesting technology at the time it was also very new Google stadia obviously dropped the ball in significant ways with its own launch attempting a similar approach to gaming but NVIDIA has got a lot more experience in this space behind it and certainly although Google has money that's not the only thing you need to compete in the cloud computing space GeForce now officially left beta this week it was a somewhat quiet launch compared to how Nvidia usually prefers to launch products and services with leather jackets blazing while it's already being compared favorably to stadia it's worth noting that this service has been in beta for probably about seven years now since about 2013 GeForce now was born out of the ashes of that grid beta we discussed which was intended as a game streaming service specifically for shield devices and video grid never really took off and it into g-force now over time g-force now was once again being aimed at shield devices at first leaving beta in 2015 after some flops it reentered beta again in 2017 with the goal of overhauling it for the PC gaming crowd at large three years later and video seems confident the service is ready for primetime despite some initial reports that suggest otherwise NVIDIA has had a lot of time to build d-force now as a service and it shows in the many ways it differentiates itself from stadia the service currently boasts a substantial library of supported games compared to stadia which is slowly launching more by the way if you'd forgotten about it it offers a free tier I'll be it with a limited time one hour session and an undercut stadiums pricing at $5 per month and perhaps the most advantageous aspect is that users are afforded access to actual graphics settings for every game something that's extremely limited with stadia and in some instances completely unavailable GeForce now basically fires up a virtual machine and it loads the launcher of your choice so Steam is supported epic is supported battlenet or whatever it's called these days so settings from the respective versions of those games should remain intact in theory they shouldn't be special for GeForce now it's as we understand it's sort of a BYOD model and should this wage some of the concerns about game ownership in the long run run that we had with stadia specifically where you start worrying about if the service dies what happens to your investment in the games library as for how the hardware is divvied up in addition to the graphics settings users also get access to Turing or Pascal based GeForce now servers the way this works back in the day was Nvidia charged different amounts or was planning to charge different amounts per month based on the hardware you wanted to use so if you wanted to use a 10 60 in the cloud it was cheaper than a 1080 in the cloud or whatever they however they may have phrased it but that was the goal so now the way it's sorted is that there's ray-tracing available even for those pain the $5 per month tier for the founder subscription processor wise GeForce now servers only identify the CPU as a very plain intel CC 150 the intel CC 150 is completely shrouded in mystery at this point in an official context nothing about it is congruent with intel's past naming and product nomenclature and rumors on well reddit so you know but rumors on reddit currently speculate that it's an eight-core sixteen thread part based on intel's coffee leak line the chip sports the same pin count and the same capacitor layout as those processors and it is supposedly fitted into the LGA 1151 socket so that might make sense GeForce now also seems to offer many ways to tweak the bit rate and the frame rate for streaming and there's a current maximum resolution of just 1080p so stadia does have that over GeForce now right now Nvidia is launching the service with the following supported platforms there's Windows Mac OS and Android with a future chromebook support as well those still exist I guess while Nvidia seems to be putting its best foot forward and combining the bring your own games model with the pay for streaming or games as a service model the natural strengths that NVIDIA has is an infrastructure obviously because it makes the hardware or at least most of it the most relevant part of it so it still has one serious hurdle and that would be the one that all the gaming cloud vendors have which is convincing gamers that streaming games is better than playing locally and for existing PC game enthusiasts that's a tough sell especially once you consider latency and that's what we need to look at if we get a chance to benchmark this one next up intel is reportedly preparing a cascade lake refresh according to a report coming out of CRN intel is apparently preparing to respond to andy's current epic server lineup that is epic roam Intel's current server offerings are the Cascade Lakes Xeon family the rumored response would come in the form of a cascade Lake refresh line lest you get your lakes confused this refresh would exist separately from Cooper Lake which is intended to be another 14 nanometer plus plus update for the second half of 2020 the new cascade lake refresh is supposedly set to launch as soon as February 23rd and evidence of the new chips has surfaced in recent Intel micro up code updates as well per CRN's reporting intel's partners have stated that intel has been sharing fab capacity with current to cascade lake parts in order to ramp up for the cascade lake refresh which may have contributed to the recent to Zeon shortages the refreshed cascade Lake parks would seemingly top out at 28 cores a four core upgrade from the current lineup they would also include an iterative frequency bump and denser cache and more importantly and perhaps more exciting is the idea that Intel would be competing on the basis of price and features both of which the chip maker has been notoriously greedy with in the server segment in the past refreshed cascade Lake parts would target the mainstream and value oriented server market and tied in to all over until Cooper Lake arrives which should address the high end server market next up am these x86 CPU market share gains continued Andy recently shared some details from the report compiled by mercury research which essentially confirms Andy's narrative that it continues to gain market share across x86 CPU segments Andy has also achieved some of its best market share performance since 2013 which Lisa Hsu CEO obviously hinted at and these earnings report last week the figures that we have excluded console and or semi-custom and IOT data but here's what they look like while Andy's quarter-over-quarter gains are negligible in most cases and these year-over-year gains begin to illustrate the success of risin 3000 and epic roam proving that both chip lineups continued to become more popular with customers and OEMs alike Andy still faces an uphill battle in the service space where Intel Xeon tentacles are firmly entrenched Andy continues to chip away at Intel share and Andy's confidence it says that it can achieve double-digit share by mid 2020 make no mistake Andy has a long way to go here however Andy continues to pick its shots wisely and its current epic 7002 Series has already proven to be a worthy tool and prying away lucrative market share from Intel he's already gone on the offensive with price cuts and that rumored cascade Lake refresh Andy's upcoming epic Milan based on 700 plus and n3 should ratchet up the pressure further and these biggest gain here for these numbers is mobile and it comes just before and these new rise in 4,000 series mobile processors will make landfall Andy has made significant gains with OEMs and AMD powered notebooks and it shows and according to mercury AMD took fifteen point five percent share of the cpu pi in 2019 averaged across all segments in terms of our own user base we've noticed upwards of 93 percent of you are purchasing and the over Intel via affiliate links these days which is about a one to one flip it's complete inverse from what we saw about maybe four years ago when it was around that percentage for Intel through our our links and not AMD next up is as rock hitting record revenue and citing strong demand for AMD as ROC reported a record year for 2019 bringing in 443 million dollars for the year a 31 percent year-over-year increase for vs. 2018 additionally according to a report from industry profits digit times as ROC expects 2020 to bring higher revenues and as rock tributes this resurgence specifically to Andy part as rock cites a strong demand for the AMD platform in its quotes and sees this trend only growing in 2020 as the company gears up for rising 4000 series motherboards that will be supported eventually and chipsets later in the year another factor underpinning as Rock's recent earnings and success is that it's relatively new graphics card business turned profitable in 2019 where the company has been shipping the rx 5000 series GPU holding cards asrock has also invested heavily in penetrating the US and European markets and getting out of a primarily Asia market focus which has expanded its reach as well finally Massachusetts may become the first state passing right to repair laws and if you know who he is Louis Rothman has been talking about right to repair non-stop for a long time now but particularly in the last couple of new monster certainly the last few weeks as he's gone to some of the public hearings and other meetings to try and speak on behalf of right to repair so and if you don't know any of that you should go watch his channel because it's interesting stuff Massachusetts is a historical battleground for right to repair laws as the state has previously championed some of the most consumer centric repair Legislature pertaining zuv vehicles and that's legislature that would go on to become a national standard last October lawmakers in it's how the hearing on the state's digital right to repair act the bill if passed would require manufacturers to render diagnostic service and repair guides while also making tools and parts available for sale manufacturers would also be barred from blocking repairs on a software level or potentially a firmware level where the chips kill themselves when they notice that you're trying to fix them this past week marked a very important milestone for the proposed legislature as it cleared the committee which means that this is the furthest that any potential bill has ever made it for at least right to repair the bill still needs to clear the house in the Senate in Massachusetts but at this point things look good and a statement to mother board Kyle Wiens CEO of iFixit seemed optimistic quote if leadership allows this to have a floor vote this will pass this is the closest we've ever gotten said the iFixit CEO the digital right to repair act has enjoyed unusual bipartisan support in Massachusetts and it's modeled after the automobile right to repair laws passed in 2012 that prompted the automobile industry to sign a memorandum of understanding meaning manufacturers would honor the bill in all 50 states that's the effect right to repair activists are hoping Massachusetts digital rights repair act will have on electronics companies and if you watch any of Lewis's coverage of of some of these various councils and groups discussing the right to repair bills one of the things that I've noticed as a trend in them is a lot of times he'll get questions when they do QA with an expert which would be Louis rossmann a lot of times when he gets questions from them one of them will be has this passed anywhere else have other states done something like this because they want to model what they're looking at after the other states and that makes it tough so having Massachusetts or anyone else start passing this type of law and actually making right to repair a thing for electronics that would be a big milestone that would encourage other states to do it too because politicians are afraid to do things so hopefully that's good news obviously we think that you should be able to repair your stuff lewis rossmann made a I'll take his analogy that I think you might have taken from someone else I'm not sure but the point he made about all this that really seemed to click with politicians was you have a car and maybe your car breaks down you've got options you can go to the dealer who's certified and potentially sold you the vehicle you can go to an independent repair shop or you can go to your neighbor and get it repaired and that's what we'd like to see with electronics as well so that especially with a company like Apple but in general actually evj is excluded here because they don't do warranty void stickers but in general a lot of companies that have warranty voiding programs even in the u.s. that they try to enforce for things like simple repairs or if their home page replacement whatever it may be obviously this type of bill would protect you in instances where a company might otherwise try to force you to just buy a new product which is just overall bad anyway and is wasteful so hopefully this will help push a change to move away from some of the planned obsolescence and the buy and replace nature of electronics these days which is not only wasteful for the consumers and their money but wasteful in terms of resources because all of those rare earth metals do have to be dug out of the ground and over time that'll add to the cost of the products too so it looks good and we did encourage you check out leoz for Osmonds coverage because he's done great work on this and we definitely fully support him on his efforts for right to repair that's it for this news video thanks for watching subscribe for more go to store documents access net to help us out directly or patreon.com/scishow and access check back for the 3990 Xtreme and we'll see you all next timeeveryone welcome back to another hardware news recap for the week for this one we have a good amount of news but the number one item for us is the AMD 3990 X that we have managed to secure from another reviewer it's been overnight shift so that we can hopefully get it in time for some liquid-nitrogen live streams with Joe step on Z so Joe step on Z will be visiting he's from bearded hardware he's been here before and we're doing streams on Sunday of this weekend the time for that will be 1 p.m. est Sunday for the 3990 Xtreme if you want to watch us lap the 3970 X that's already up other things to talk about for this week's recap include AMD has apparently lost the battle against Intel that's gonna be a fun story preservation of old flash games and animations and video g-force now exiting beta and stadia being a good marketing point for it Intel reportedly preparing cascade like refreshes and aim the x86 CPU market share games before that this video is brought to you by EVGA SRT X 20 atti XE ultra the 20 80 TI XE ultra is what we use in our CPU reviews to avoid GPU bottlenecks the XE ultra uses hydraulic dynamic bearing fans for reduce the noise features a RT X support for DX our titles and uses a massive 2.75 slot cooler the cooler design allows the fans that's been slower and quieter while syncing heat further leveraging a mix of l-shaped and traditional fins to maximize airflow or contact learn more at the link in the description below so the first one is that 39 90 X story well we were probably pushing this video Friday night we're filming at Friday and that means you'll have time hopefully to catch the stream Sunday Joe has brought a few things he's brought a 39 70 X and we're going to be lapping that so you'll be able to get a fun CPU lapping video where we basically will be sending off the top of a HS get it down to bare copper and then sanding down his LM 2 pots as well so we get better contact for liquid nitrogen stuff that said the original plan was to also overclock that CPU this weekend but it looks like we might be changed that we knew the 39 DX was launching what we weren't sure about was if it be possible to get one in time for Joe's already planned visit so I you're looking around a lot considering a day trip to Micro Center four and a half hours away and back we did end up getting another youtuber who could send it to us and so you can guess who that is as stated but yeah we'll have that on loan and then we'll do a review of the CPU as well okay so the leading story is coverage of some questionable writing so AMD has lost apparently and Daniel Newman the principal analyst at Futurama research has attempted a hot take and an opinion piece over at Market Watch there's a lot to unpack in the article which for the most part does have some actually demonstrable false statements in it but we'll just go with a few of our favorites sort of like a greatest hits of the article so the title reads why am these best days are behind it and it should really tell the readers everything that they need to know but the following paragraphs are still kind of fun to look at we could make the argument that am these worst days are behind it not its best days because you know there was a period where Andy was nearly bankrupt after buying ATI it was unable to produce a competitive GPU that's sort of changed not they still have a lot of issues there but had trouble with GPUs it had bulldozer and piledriver and all these failed CPUs that were just objectively bad and also by the way it was involved in a class-action lawsuit that it's recently settled so Andy didn't really have great days maybe about six years ago so more like worse days are behind it there's one more point to to pile onto that which is that AMD at one point had to sell its campus its own campus and lease it back from the new owner of the campus because it needed a temporary cash injection that's how bad it was for Andy it was very close to not existing anymore so the subheading reads AMD had a shot to catch Intel and blew it so Andy doesn't really need to directly catch Intel it's readily apparent that the disparity in the size of the two chip makers is lost on market watch here and he is accompanied with a fifty 9.04 billion dollar market cap Intel runs 285 point five five billion so and he can't catch Intel in three years time more specifically not inside of the 18-month window of quote when its chip making rival was wounded as Market Watch puts it so as we talked about last week and as we further elaborate on later here Andy continues to win back x86 CPU market share Andy is holding both a technology and a process note lead via its partnerships over Intel TSMC is making it all look bad these days and furthermore the market watch comments that epic should quote have made significant gains and servers and that AMD quote made only a few small dent in Intel's business are not really accurate something to remember here AMD first of all Intel is a beast and Andy doesn't have an easy fight and ultimately what we want to see is Intel now put something out that's directly competitive with and these desktop stuff because we want them to fight directly head-to-head so both the companies really need to have their best foot forward for everybody but something to remember here is that AMD has effectively gone from zero market share in server to five percent in a couple of years and five percent might sound small but considering going from nearly zero for a company the size of AMD as compared to the size of Intel that 5% means a lot more for AMD than it does for Intel and so from a these standpoint that's a pretty significant growth so mark your watch fails to keep a few of these things in mind and the operates at a fraction of Intel's R&D budget I consider that Intel earns more in a single quarter than AMD net in an entire year and you begin to see the uphill battle that AMD faces and just like in benchmarks this is in a lot of ways about relative comparisons not necessarily absolute comparisons because you're looking at relative gains in this instance in the market but just in technology - so these wins mean a lot for a relatively small company like AMD its earnings in 2019 illustrate that effectively mark watch continued to say quote now Intel is shoring up production announcing the pricing updating its data center chips introducing 5g pcs okay and expanding to be far more than a chip company Intel's not really it's not really been a it's been more of a manufacturer than anything since beginning it was founded as a manufacturing company but anyway Intel apparently shoring up production for over a year now and it still hasn't rectified its pervasive 40 nanometers shortage in fact some of its customers are predicting those shortages will persist for most of 2020 like HP Enterprise despite and these own troubles anticipating demand and securing wafers it continues to ship products when Intel can't and tsmc is is the limiting factor there since it's splitting its wait for someone equally between his customers additionally Intel's lower pricing and quote updated datacenter chips or a direct response to Andy's epic and thread Ripper in a lot of ways these chips might have existed anyway but the pricing wouldn't have been where it is today so Neumann extolled Intel for being back on track but ultimately it's got plenty of its own issues like Intel security vulnerabilities which we have covered almost weekly in hardware news at this point new ones every couple months and then follow-ups to those regularly so you can ask the server vendors how they've dealt with mitigations on a lot of those and that another quote here I believe Intel is now the firm better positioned to deliver the sales and profitability investors are looking for that's bad news for those holding AMD stock and many have yet to realize just how bad it will be so this from the same writer who warned investors to be skeptical of anthea stock price last year when it was trading for $30 per share by the way it's now trading for about $50 per share as of this writing so the very least market watch is probably used to eating its own words by now now Andy has a lot of trouble its GPU department really isn't doing it any favors right now and just just kind of floundering around making the rest of Andy look that the CPU department is doing well but it can't stop obviously Xen to produce greater gains than we expected but overall as then matures and these potentially going to end up in a situation where Intel was a couple years ago where every CPU has a risk of potentially being unexcited so we'll see how Andy deals with that perhaps it's using the chip approach the things are different these days perhaps it's able to maintain greater gains per architecture that Intel was able to once it started hitting that 4,000 series on beyond where you go to 4790k 6700 K 77 RK they all sort of felt the same the questions going to be whether AMD can keep ahead of that and prevent it from happening to it as well as a in these process matures because jumping from bulldozer to Xen obviously easy mode to get the gains as compared to going from Xen to does n3 where Andy's already done so much optimization so all this to say and the has a lot of struggle and if Margot wanted to write about that there's a lot of really interesting stories in there that they could talk about from a technology standpoint but it's a market analysis website and they sort of missed all of it flashpoint is up next so for those who cut their computing teeth on CRT monitors and beige-colored everything you likely remember the advent of a technology called flash even at a time when it was a macro media product and before that a futurewave product and I guess later on an Adobe acquired product when Adobe bought half the Internet but it was a different time so once upon a time the internet was made up of boring static web pages and it required flash to add multimedia and interactivity for things such as video audio animations and games even YouTube used flash and it's early days for compressed video flash is set to go end-of-life this year the fact that it's still alive is probably a bit of a surprise for a lot of people but it's been phased out and as the deprecated platform has been lawn outshined by newer web api's and html5 flash has been dying a slow death with browser support fading as it becomes all but non-existent search engines like Google won't even index results with flash content anymore even Adobe more or less washed its hands of Flash when it introduced Adobe animates it's been one slow nail in the coffin after another for flash so as with many technologies that vanish from the Internet all history from a different time of computing vanishes with them love it or hate it flash did define an Internet era and when it dies so to do thousands of games and animations that were so popular at the time so that's what blue Maxima is trying to prevent with flashpoint flashpoint to date has scraped together an Internet Archive of 38,000 games and 2400 animations flashpoint uses an open-source launcher and a few tricks to emulate old flash browser games instead of running flash natively the launcher currently comes packaged either as a standalone application where you download the games you want to play them locally or as a complete package where all of the games are playable offline since we're here we might as well also direct your attention to another flash preservation project called ruffle which is ongoing if any of this stuff has sparked nostalgia and you and you want to visit some of the old games you played and video g4s now is finally exiting its beta in the next story so we were talking about this at the office the other day and Google stadia was probably the best marketing that Nvidia could have had for a GeForce now GeForce now has been around forever it used to be called grid back in the day and during that time we actually covered it at a few locations where Nvidia had small servers at trade shows and would run on-site demonstrations of game streaming these were never particularly impressive but it was a very interesting technology at the time it was also very new Google stadia obviously dropped the ball in significant ways with its own launch attempting a similar approach to gaming but NVIDIA has got a lot more experience in this space behind it and certainly although Google has money that's not the only thing you need to compete in the cloud computing space GeForce now officially left beta this week it was a somewhat quiet launch compared to how Nvidia usually prefers to launch products and services with leather jackets blazing while it's already being compared favorably to stadia it's worth noting that this service has been in beta for probably about seven years now since about 2013 GeForce now was born out of the ashes of that grid beta we discussed which was intended as a game streaming service specifically for shield devices and video grid never really took off and it into g-force now over time g-force now was once again being aimed at shield devices at first leaving beta in 2015 after some flops it reentered beta again in 2017 with the goal of overhauling it for the PC gaming crowd at large three years later and video seems confident the service is ready for primetime despite some initial reports that suggest otherwise NVIDIA has had a lot of time to build d-force now as a service and it shows in the many ways it differentiates itself from stadia the service currently boasts a substantial library of supported games compared to stadia which is slowly launching more by the way if you'd forgotten about it it offers a free tier I'll be it with a limited time one hour session and an undercut stadiums pricing at $5 per month and perhaps the most advantageous aspect is that users are afforded access to actual graphics settings for every game something that's extremely limited with stadia and in some instances completely unavailable GeForce now basically fires up a virtual machine and it loads the launcher of your choice so Steam is supported epic is supported battlenet or whatever it's called these days so settings from the respective versions of those games should remain intact in theory they shouldn't be special for GeForce now it's as we understand it's sort of a BYOD model and should this wage some of the concerns about game ownership in the long run run that we had with stadia specifically where you start worrying about if the service dies what happens to your investment in the games library as for how the hardware is divvied up in addition to the graphics settings users also get access to Turing or Pascal based GeForce now servers the way this works back in the day was Nvidia charged different amounts or was planning to charge different amounts per month based on the hardware you wanted to use so if you wanted to use a 10 60 in the cloud it was cheaper than a 1080 in the cloud or whatever they however they may have phrased it but that was the goal so now the way it's sorted is that there's ray-tracing available even for those pain the $5 per month tier for the founder subscription processor wise GeForce now servers only identify the CPU as a very plain intel CC 150 the intel CC 150 is completely shrouded in mystery at this point in an official context nothing about it is congruent with intel's past naming and product nomenclature and rumors on well reddit so you know but rumors on reddit currently speculate that it's an eight-core sixteen thread part based on intel's coffee leak line the chip sports the same pin count and the same capacitor layout as those processors and it is supposedly fitted into the LGA 1151 socket so that might make sense GeForce now also seems to offer many ways to tweak the bit rate and the frame rate for streaming and there's a current maximum resolution of just 1080p so stadia does have that over GeForce now right now Nvidia is launching the service with the following supported platforms there's Windows Mac OS and Android with a future chromebook support as well those still exist I guess while Nvidia seems to be putting its best foot forward and combining the bring your own games model with the pay for streaming or games as a service model the natural strengths that NVIDIA has is an infrastructure obviously because it makes the hardware or at least most of it the most relevant part of it so it still has one serious hurdle and that would be the one that all the gaming cloud vendors have which is convincing gamers that streaming games is better than playing locally and for existing PC game enthusiasts that's a tough sell especially once you consider latency and that's what we need to look at if we get a chance to benchmark this one next up intel is reportedly preparing a cascade lake refresh according to a report coming out of CRN intel is apparently preparing to respond to andy's current epic server lineup that is epic roam Intel's current server offerings are the Cascade Lakes Xeon family the rumored response would come in the form of a cascade Lake refresh line lest you get your lakes confused this refresh would exist separately from Cooper Lake which is intended to be another 14 nanometer plus plus update for the second half of 2020 the new cascade lake refresh is supposedly set to launch as soon as February 23rd and evidence of the new chips has surfaced in recent Intel micro up code updates as well per CRN's reporting intel's partners have stated that intel has been sharing fab capacity with current to cascade lake parts in order to ramp up for the cascade lake refresh which may have contributed to the recent to Zeon shortages the refreshed cascade Lake parks would seemingly top out at 28 cores a four core upgrade from the current lineup they would also include an iterative frequency bump and denser cache and more importantly and perhaps more exciting is the idea that Intel would be competing on the basis of price and features both of which the chip maker has been notoriously greedy with in the server segment in the past refreshed cascade Lake parts would target the mainstream and value oriented server market and tied in to all over until Cooper Lake arrives which should address the high end server market next up am these x86 CPU market share gains continued Andy recently shared some details from the report compiled by mercury research which essentially confirms Andy's narrative that it continues to gain market share across x86 CPU segments Andy has also achieved some of its best market share performance since 2013 which Lisa Hsu CEO obviously hinted at and these earnings report last week the figures that we have excluded console and or semi-custom and IOT data but here's what they look like while Andy's quarter-over-quarter gains are negligible in most cases and these year-over-year gains begin to illustrate the success of risin 3000 and epic roam proving that both chip lineups continued to become more popular with customers and OEMs alike Andy still faces an uphill battle in the service space where Intel Xeon tentacles are firmly entrenched Andy continues to chip away at Intel share and Andy's confidence it says that it can achieve double-digit share by mid 2020 make no mistake Andy has a long way to go here however Andy continues to pick its shots wisely and its current epic 7002 Series has already proven to be a worthy tool and prying away lucrative market share from Intel he's already gone on the offensive with price cuts and that rumored cascade Lake refresh Andy's upcoming epic Milan based on 700 plus and n3 should ratchet up the pressure further and these biggest gain here for these numbers is mobile and it comes just before and these new rise in 4,000 series mobile processors will make landfall Andy has made significant gains with OEMs and AMD powered notebooks and it shows and according to mercury AMD took fifteen point five percent share of the cpu pi in 2019 averaged across all segments in terms of our own user base we've noticed upwards of 93 percent of you are purchasing and the over Intel via affiliate links these days which is about a one to one flip it's complete inverse from what we saw about maybe four years ago when it was around that percentage for Intel through our our links and not AMD next up is as rock hitting record revenue and citing strong demand for AMD as ROC reported a record year for 2019 bringing in 443 million dollars for the year a 31 percent year-over-year increase for vs. 2018 additionally according to a report from industry profits digit times as ROC expects 2020 to bring higher revenues and as rock tributes this resurgence specifically to Andy part as rock cites a strong demand for the AMD platform in its quotes and sees this trend only growing in 2020 as the company gears up for rising 4000 series motherboards that will be supported eventually and chipsets later in the year another factor underpinning as Rock's recent earnings and success is that it's relatively new graphics card business turned profitable in 2019 where the company has been shipping the rx 5000 series GPU holding cards asrock has also invested heavily in penetrating the US and European markets and getting out of a primarily Asia market focus which has expanded its reach as well finally Massachusetts may become the first state passing right to repair laws and if you know who he is Louis Rothman has been talking about right to repair non-stop for a long time now but particularly in the last couple of new monster certainly the last few weeks as he's gone to some of the public hearings and other meetings to try and speak on behalf of right to repair so and if you don't know any of that you should go watch his channel because it's interesting stuff Massachusetts is a historical battleground for right to repair laws as the state has previously championed some of the most consumer centric repair Legislature pertaining zuv vehicles and that's legislature that would go on to become a national standard last October lawmakers in it's how the hearing on the state's digital right to repair act the bill if passed would require manufacturers to render diagnostic service and repair guides while also making tools and parts available for sale manufacturers would also be barred from blocking repairs on a software level or potentially a firmware level where the chips kill themselves when they notice that you're trying to fix them this past week marked a very important milestone for the proposed legislature as it cleared the committee which means that this is the furthest that any potential bill has ever made it for at least right to repair the bill still needs to clear the house in the Senate in Massachusetts but at this point things look good and a statement to mother board Kyle Wiens CEO of iFixit seemed optimistic quote if leadership allows this to have a floor vote this will pass this is the closest we've ever gotten said the iFixit CEO the digital right to repair act has enjoyed unusual bipartisan support in Massachusetts and it's modeled after the automobile right to repair laws passed in 2012 that prompted the automobile industry to sign a memorandum of understanding meaning manufacturers would honor the bill in all 50 states that's the effect right to repair activists are hoping Massachusetts digital rights repair act will have on electronics companies and if you watch any of Lewis's coverage of of some of these various councils and groups discussing the right to repair bills one of the things that I've noticed as a trend in them is a lot of times he'll get questions when they do QA with an expert which would be Louis rossmann a lot of times when he gets questions from them one of them will be has this passed anywhere else have other states done something like this because they want to model what they're looking at after the other states and that makes it tough so having Massachusetts or anyone else start passing this type of law and actually making right to repair a thing for electronics that would be a big milestone that would encourage other states to do it too because politicians are afraid to do things so hopefully that's good news obviously we think that you should be able to repair your stuff lewis rossmann made a I'll take his analogy that I think you might have taken from someone else I'm not sure but the point he made about all this that really seemed to click with politicians was you have a car and maybe your car breaks down you've got options you can go to the dealer who's certified and potentially sold you the vehicle you can go to an independent repair shop or you can go to your neighbor and get it repaired and that's what we'd like to see with electronics as well so that especially with a company like Apple but in general actually evj is excluded here because they don't do warranty void stickers but in general a lot of companies that have warranty voiding programs even in the u.s. that they try to enforce for things like simple repairs or if their home page replacement whatever it may be obviously this type of bill would protect you in instances where a company might otherwise try to force you to just buy a new product which is just overall bad anyway and is wasteful so hopefully this will help push a change to move away from some of the planned obsolescence and the buy and replace nature of electronics these days which is not only wasteful for the consumers and their money but wasteful in terms of resources because all of those rare earth metals do have to be dug out of the ground and over time that'll add to the cost of the products too so it looks good and we did encourage you check out leoz for Osmonds coverage because he's done great work on this and we definitely fully support him on his efforts for right to repair that's it for this news video thanks for watching subscribe for more go to store documents access net to help us out directly or patreon.com/scishow and access check back for the 3990 Xtreme and we'll see you all next time\n"