Hardware news this week talks about NVIDIA's treatment of Hardware Unboxed and other reviewers, the GPU and component shortages, RISC-V emergence for CPUs, and more.
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Hardware news this week covers RISC-V designs and emergence via Seagate, the GPU drought extending to data center clients (especially of NVIDIA and the Ampere A100 GPUs), CPU shortages affecting system integrators, and additional stories. One of the smaller stories is about rumored RTX 3050 and 3060 (non-Ti) GPUs, with thanks to patch notes for AIDA64 listing "support for GA106" and "GA107" Ampere GPUs. We're not sure if these are the final names, to be clear, so it could still end up being a "GTX" card, but it's feasible that NVIDIA is trying to move RT hardware into all of its gaming-class GPUs.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Recapping the Week
00:56 - The Saga of Hardware Unboxed & NVIDIA
05:52 - Seagate Designs Custom RISC-V Cores
07:13 - GPU Drought Extends to Data Center Segment
10:58 - Component Shortages Also Affecting System Integrators
19:51 - SMIC Gets Blacklisted
21:32 - AMD Continuing Reference RX 6800-Series Card Production (for Now)
23:45 - Rumor: Intel Sapphire Rapids Could Use MCM Design
25:17 - AIDA64 Beta Lists RTX 3050, RTX 3060 GPUs
26:42 - Newegg Backtracks on GPU Combo Policy
28:04 - Celeron D 347 Crosses 8GHz Barrier

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