2.5 Geeks 6/28/18: AMD 7nm Zen 2, GeForce Turing, Alienware Area-51, Snapdragon 1000, Orbi Mesh!

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, June 28, 2018, 12:05 PM EDT

In this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks podcast, Marco, Chris and Dave talk about NVIDIA’s next GeForce GTX called Turing and its potential use of MIcron GDDR6 memory, Alienware’s beastly Area-51 R5 all liquid cooled gaming PC with 18 core Skylake-X, Netgear’s Cable Orbi mesh router and cable modem kit, AMD’s 7nm Vega and Zen 2, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 and new low power Qualcomm Snapdragon 429, 439 and 632 chips for mainstream phones...

Show Notes:
03:42 - Micron Ramps Production Of GDDR6 Memory For NVIDIA GeForce GTX 20 Turing GPU Series
08:39 - First Look: NVIDIA Next Gen Turing GeForce GTX Prototype Card Spotted
15:25 - Alienware Area 51 R5 Review: Liquid Cooled GPUs And Skylake-X Firepower
27:43 - NETGEAR Orbi Mesh Router With Cable Modem Review: Blanketing Your Home Network
43:50 - TSMC Hits Volume Production Of 7nm Silicon With AMD Zen 2 And Vega 7nm Incoming This Year
52:54 - Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 Chip Could Bring Intel U Series-Like Performance To Windows 10 Laptops
59:55 - Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon 429, 439, And 632 SoC Trio For Mainstream Phones

Tags: Nvidia, Micron, Qualcomm, podcast, Geeks, Alienware, webcast, gddr6, orbi

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com