HW News – “Xbox Hardware is Dead,” Good News for Stop Killing Games, NVIDIA 5070 Ti “Super”

HW News – “Xbox Hardware is Dead,” Good News for Stop Killing Games, NVIDIA 5070 Ti “Super”

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The Stop Killing Games initiative has surpassed its EU and UK signature thresholds, but additional signatures are encouraged to ensure validity and advance legislative attention for end-of-life game accessibility. Meanwhile, concerns about Xboxโ€™s future arose as a founding Xbox team member criticized its direction, calling its hardware “dead.” Upcoming content includes a Thermal Grizzly factory tour showcasing liquid metal production, featuring Der Bower, and a preview of the RTX 5090 DV2 GPU. MSI unveiled an AMD-based Claw handheld, while Nvidia rebranded its China-exclusive 5090D to comply with export laws. Microsoft also announced mass layoffs across its gaming division.

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got the signatures, but it still needs more of them. So, we’re going to talk about that. Additionally, a founding member of the Xbox team from back in the day has stated that Xbox looks kind of dead right now based on where they’re going with it. Uh, further, we’ll be talking about the preview for our liquid metal factory tour that’s publishing on Monday and that is featuring Der Bower. It’s at Thermal Grizzlies factory, which uh he owns, and he walks us through it. Uh further news in the week includes the RTX 1590 DV2. They were going to call it the the DD, but then everybody made fun of it, and so now it’s probably going to be called the DV2, which is not that much of a better name. I don’t know that it’s the other one might have actually been better. I’m not really sure yet. Uh MSI has an AMDbased claw deviating from Intel and plenty more this week. Before that, this video is brought to you by the Anttech Flux series of cases. We previously and educational sort of mini documentary on how liquid metal is made. This follows up our how thermal paste was made video, which also featured Dare Bower. So, this was filmed at Thermal Grizzlies factory. We have a lot of really cool shots showing how liquid metal uh is poured and transferred from one container to another. There’s a lot of chemistry and science behind it. We go through the syringe filling machines. We take a stop at an SEM or a scanning electron microscope to look at how uh the liquid metal impacts different types of materials of cold plates and things like that. And it’s really educational, a lot of fun. Features Roman, of course, everyone uh loves to see those videos when we’re hosting them together. And that will go up on July 7th. We want you to be aware of it because we need you to check it out. This kind of stuff, it’s always it’s a lot of expense for us to make these educational videos that are on location like this. Uh significantly more expensive than locally. We do it because I like it. I think it’s important. Super cool. I like learning about it. They’re not the biggest drivers a lot of the time, but sometimes with enough emphasis beforehand, they can be. So, check it out for us and help us out when it goes up on the 7th. And here is a one minute trailer. This is advertiser in this one, and they, as part of the ad, they paid for me to do it in German. So, I did my best. Like, I I it I think it’s okay. I’m going to apologize in advance if I screw up any of the pronunciation or the word choice. It doesn’t really like that’s the point of the ad was they said, “Hey, uh we would like to reach a European market.” And do you think you could try and revive your high school level German that you haven’t used in almost two decades? And I said, “What could go wrong? Hopefully, we don’t offend anyone by accident. And if we do, please know that it was an accident. But if you want to hear it, then that’s going to be that video. All right. Related to all that, we’re going to be traveling for the next several weeks on and off this month, putting together a huge separate investigation with a number of smaller deep dives in it. Also educational content. Uh so this next one is going to be all over Asia. The first round of places we’re going include uh Shenzhen, Hujo, places like that. We’ll also be in Hong Kong and Taiwan. And we’re going to be visiting a bunch of different places for this investigation. Uh, I have some factory tours planned as well to uh get some more content like this out, like the liquid metal stuff. And then we have already booked for the main investigation that we’re centered on that I can’t say what it is yet. I was trying to figure out if I could say what company it’s about, but I really should I shouldn’t I I should keep my mouth shut for right now. The uh the main the the travel’s already booked though. So, we’ve got planes, highspeed rail, automobiles, and boats. I booked a I booked a speedboat. We needed it to get somewhere. I you’ll see it in the video. So, uh we’ll have a trailer for that sometime in the next several weeks. But anyway, point of bringing this up is we’re going to be pretty busy. And uh so some publishing will slow down slightly, but we still have a lot of stuff going up. It’s just there might be a slight gap in some of the publishing for a bit while we go film this. I am super excited. Love doing this kind of content. Uh and it should be fun. So anyway, in the meantime, set a reminder for Monday to check out the video with their Bower. good news. Don’t celebrate too early. There’s still some action that’s needed, but it’s good news. The Stop Killing Games Initiative has exceeded the 1 million minimum required signatures for the EU citizens initiative. And then there was also the UK petition which had a threshold of 100,000 signatures and it has exceeded that as well. I think at the time we’re filming this it’s a 130 140,000 signatures or something for the UK which is crazy. Now what that means is the stop killing games campaign which is focused at a very top level on ensuring some sort of endof life plan for games where there are online connected services so that the game remains in some kind of reasonably playable state. That is the quick top level. So that’s what it’s trying to do. But what that means next is that uh these actions will get some kind of attention from lawmakers. Remains to be seen exactly what that is and kind of what form it takes on or how it progresses, but they are now at a place where they they should get attention. And the reason that should is still there as a qualifier is because uh some of these signatures will be cold as a natural part of the process where as the most innocent example if someone signed it previously forgot and then was able to sign it again 6 months later or something like that uh or fraudulent signatures. And so what we would like everyone to do who cares about this, if this is something you think is important and you want to see it move forward so that there’s some kind of legislation that encourages some base level of access to the games you buy even after they’re phased out, uh then what you should do is still sign this if you have not yet already. So anyone who is an EU citizen can sign the EU citizens one and then the UK one’s available for those of you uh with UK citizenship. And so to feel comfortable about this, I think uh from what Ross Scott has been saying, at least an extra couple hundred thousand signatures. I think their website for Stop Killing Games says an extra 400,000 is ideal. Would kind of lock it in where it’s like, okay, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that even as the natural sort of culling process of invalid signatures proceeds, hopefully these are still in excess of the threshold. So if you have not yet signed it and you think it’s important and you went to the site, you’re like, “Oh, okay. I’m not needed here. It’s already done. You’re still needed. You could still do something important, which is make sure that when the signatures are checked for validity, yours is on there to help pad those numbers in the positive direction. So, uh, if you don’t know what’s going on here, the quick recap is that stop Killing Games is an initiative that attempts to require some level of endof life service for games with live service features or always on blind functionality. This would not apply retroactively. It would be focused only on the future and likely only after some reasonable grandfathering in timeline. It would also be beneficial to both single player and multiplayer games. So, this counts for single player stuff, too. We have an extended interview and discussion with the movements Ross Scott, who’s been doing all of the promotion, the discussions about this and explaining how these things are supposed to work. That is on our GNCA channel. We talked about it also in hardware news last week. As for what pushed this over the ledge in just the last week or so, it seems like it mostly came from some of YouTube’s class of original stars. PewDiePie posted a community post about Stop Killing Games and encouraged his community to sign and this is shortly after going full on Linux in one of his other videos and that gave it a huge signal boost. Jack Septic posted a video about the subject as well. Dozens of videos exist on the platform now, too many to name everybody. It seems like everybody came out and talked about this, but these two posts in particular the last couple days correlated with the boost in signing. Now, in the latest update on Accursed Farms, which he put together and published while we were working on this video, Ross brings up the same concerns and urges people to push for 1.4 million signatures for safety. He said he feels pretty good about the UK signature base where it’s at now. Uh, and Ross also mentions that forging signatures on the EU citizens initiative form is actually a crime, so don’t do that. And then he’s got the full update on his channel if you’d like more of that. Again, we will link his channel below. So, the forms are still open. We have linked them below. Again, the EU one goes in front of EU commissioners and is likely to get serious discussion if it maintains past that threshold. And the UK form passing the threshold would increase its chances of a real discussion amongst lawmakers in the UK. And then as Ross said in our discussion and interview with him, anything that happens in the EU especially, but probably also the UK, uh would almost certainly have downstream effects in uh other countries, the US, Canada, if developers have to build in certain mechanisms to comply with laws like you see with GDPR for example, sometimes it’s easier to just maintain those and deploy them to all regions than it is to say, okay, we’ve complied with the laws in this place. This one doesn’t have those. So, this place in particular. So, sometimes it’s easier to just copy paste. And that’s kind of the hope here, especially because it’s technology, so it can literally be copied and pasted. So, it might actually be more uphill of a battle to strip things out and architect it in a hostile way after you’ve already done the work to make it a little more compliant. So, currently, again, this to recap, it’s in a good spot. Not out of the woods yet. definitely needs more signatures to be safe and then uh long-term we just need to see where it goes. All this is sort of the the start of it where the next stages are the ones where now it’s starting to get into the real momentum of all right now there’s lawmakers paying attention to it and uh at that point we just got to see how it evolves. So, I’m sure Ross will uh have an update on on his channel at some point about all this. And he is on Aursed Farms on YouTube if you want to check him out, and you should anyway, even if this doesn’t interest you, he does cool video game content that you might like. So, you should check that out. Let’s move on to the next story. All right. After the mess that was the original MSI claw launch, which featured an Intel SOC, MSI launched its second claw, also with Intel. We haven’t had a chance to test that one yet, and now it’s launching another one. MSI is launching its first AMD claw. This is a revised A8 model that’ll use the Ryzen Z2 Extreme. The company claims the A8 is the first handheld built with AMD’s new APU. Although the Z2 Go has already been used in the Lenovo Legion Go S. The Z2 Extreme chip features eight cores, 16 threads, 16 graphics cores, an advertised 5 GHz max turbo, and Zen 5Z clocks up to 3.3. That would be the top spec of these Z2 chips right now. MSI claims that the Z2 Extreme is up to 26.7% better in games and primarily cites the Z1 Extreme as its baseline for comparison. Its lowest performance uplift that it showed first party was a 16% improvement. And again, there may be stuff that’s less than that. They just didn’t choose to show it or didn’t test it. MSI claims 19 hours of 1080p video playback, which seems maybe questionable, but we’ll see if we can get one to test. Possible. It’s but that is a long time. and it shows three and a half hours of gaming in its so-called endurance mode, which clocks down the parts, so performance is lower, lasts longer, though. In terms of other specs, the company advertises an 80Wh hour battery, 8 in 120 Hz uh 1920 x 1200 touchscreen, 24 GB of LPDDR5 memory, and Hall effect analog sticks and triggers. MSI also says the device is Wi-Fi 7 ready. Coolant is illustrated on the page as using dual blowers with a shared fat heat pipe over the SOC and a bullet point that says it might not actually be what’s in there. Colors include an actually pretty cool neon green and black option and white and black option. There’s no firm widespread release date yet, but according to videocards.com, the A8 looks to be releasing in China sometime this month with prospective buyers able to pre-order it for about 7,000 renb, which amounts to a steep about $975. And again, we’re leaving for our major trip over to Asia pretty soon, which includes China. And so, I’m going to see if I can get one while I’m over there and uh we’ll we’ll buy at an SCG market or something and and uh test it on the flight home just like I did. It’s like a celebration of the first MSI claw we reviewed. Hopefully with a more positive conclusion this time. Now, in our previous news episode, we talked about how MSI teamed up with Pixar to create 30th anniversary Toy Story themed hardware. Now, not to be outdone, Height is teaming up with Gundam Wayne and Bandai Namco to create Gundam Wayne 30th anniversary hardware. Next up, we expect 30th anniversary hardware from NZXT celebrating Ace Ventura. I have a package for you. [Applause] Sounds broken. Most likely, sir. I’ll bet it was something nice, though. And while we wait for that collaboration, which NZXT either really doesn’t deserve or is perfectly deserving of, I guess, height’s new gear consists of a reskinned Y70, keycaps, a desk pad, and a wall scroll. Height is calling its revised chassis the uh quote official Gundam Wayne Y70 Touch Infinite Limited Edition case. end of quote. And unfortunately, they’re probably going to have to raise the prices again to pay for all the ink they’re going to need to use to put that name on the side of the cardboard boxes. The company says it quote features a custom white colorway with stylized black trim across the case and a variety of accented components based on the XXXG-000 Win Gundam Zero color scheme. The quote continues. It says these include a bright yellow power button, red feet for the case, yellow drive bays and PCIe slot covers, and a red PCIe 4.0 luxury riser cable from height. End quote. Not really sure what a what a uh luxury riser cable is, but okay. Height also says the case’s touch infinite display will feature a quote custom startup visuals inspired by the anime end quote. Everything on the case is painted custom as well. As for key caps, there will be 152 of them that are compatible with, they say most ANC and UK ISO keyboards. Height says that the key caps quote utilize Gundam Winds color scheme and iconography to highlight the anime’s two iconic mechs, the XXG01W Gundam Win and the OZ-13MS Gundam. I’m going to go with Epion. End quote. And I have nearly 100% certainty that I’ve read something incorrectly or suboptimally in that strain of alpha numeric identifiers. I am I am so sorry. Uh I am not familiar with the correct pronunciation of the Gundam Wayne mech suits. That was I don’t know if I’ve used the right word. Mech suit seem that seemed risky. I probably shouldn’t have chosen I probably should have just said the I I’m going to get out of here before it’s too late. The Windman to the Gundam Wayne themed keycaps is the dueling Gundam Wayne themed desk pad which measures 900 mm x 400 mm. And finally, the wall scroll features the five main Gundam Wayne mobile suits. Up next, speaking of pissing off a specific segment of the internet, Nvidia. Nvidia has more GPUs. That’s Aren’t you excited? According to Copi 7 KI, the noted hardware leakers suggest that Nvidia will be releasing both an RTX 570 Super and a 5070Ti Super. And if those don’t work out, Nvidia will launch the 5070Ti Super Duper Ultimate Maximum Edition. The GPU launches will continue until the morale improves. We’re going to be rich. Regarding the 5070 Super, Copai 7K tweeted that it will have 6,400 CUDA cores. This would be 256 more than the 5070 before it, which offers 6144 CUDA cores. And in terms of VRAM, the leaker says that the card will come with 18 GB of GDDR7 memory at 28 Gbits per second and a TGP or total graphics power that amounts to 275 watts. That would be 25 watts more than the 570 is 250. The VRAM increase is definitely more notable. That’s up from 12 GB to now 18. Moving on to the 5070 Ti Super Non duper edition. The leaker says that it will use the GB 203-350- A1 GPU and offers 8960 CUDA cores. And unfortunately, these are just normal CUDA cores, not super duper ones. This is the same count as the RTX 570Ti’s 8960 CUDA cores, and it’s 1792 fewer than the RTX 5080, which offers 10,752. For VRAM, the card will supposedly offer 24 GB of G7 memory at 28 Gbits per second and will be a 350 W card up from the 16 GB of memory on the 570Ti and actually also higher than the 16 GB RTX 5080. So, it’s actually feasible if you found the right scenario with the production application like I could actually definitely do this in Adobe Premiere or encoder. Uh but it’s feasible that a 5070Ti with 24 gigabytes of VRAM might be more useful than a 5080 with 16 in certain applications and use cases uh where if you’re exceeding the VRAM it doesn’t doesn’t matter if the 5080 has more CUDA cores if it just can’t use anything because it’s saturated which is a problem actually. We did test it with a 508016 versus a 3090 I think it was which is 24 GB of VRAM and the 3090 was outperforming it for our Adobe Premiere uh workload. So these rumors from COP 87 Kimi follow on from May 20th in which the leaker alleged that an RTX 5080 Super uh was also in the works. That card back then was reported to be using the GPU uh GB 203-450- A1 featuring a rumored 10,752 CUDA cores, the same as the 5080 uh with 24 GB of GDR7 at 32 Gbits per second. In our 50 series partner coverage back in January, we remarked how MSI accidentally had an RTX 580 box in some of its product videography that stated 24 GB on the side. Now, at the time, our assumption was that Nvidia planned to do 24 gigabytes and then cut it back to 16 somewhere after the boxes had been printed or at least some of the early boxes. Possible that MSI screwed up, but just it’s especially now these are starting to come out. It looks like something switched last second or they decided to hold it for the super series to get a product refresh in there. But anyway, more GPUs. So, like I said a moment ago that the GPU launches will continue until morale improves. Up next, Nvidia’s China exclusive 5090D has been rebranded and reworked two times now, not counting the original one. So, it was the 5090 that became the 5090D for the China market. And then it became very briefly it became the 5090 DD and then they changed it very quickly after that to the 5090DV2, which is what it is now. The reason Nvidia is doing this is to comply with export control laws from the US for shipments into China. Nvidia created the 590D for the China market. However, in April, several reports claimed that Nvidia told partners it would suspend the 590D shipments to China. Nvidia has changed product specifications in the past for China specific GPUs in order to work around US export controls on processing power, and who knows how the rules could change further. If Nvidia has to add a third D to its 5090 variant for China though, we have a naming recommendation for them. King GDD. As reported by Tom’s Hardware and video cards, Twitter user Megaize GPU revealed the alleged name of the next RTX 590 variant for the China market. Megaiz GPU has a pretty good track record and actually was one of the originals who reported the prototype that we got a couple years later and took apart. According to the leak, the new China specific GPU will be called the RTX5090DV2. The reports claimed the 5090 DV2 will replace the temporarily rumored and inbound RTX 590D branding. In a table with the rumored specs, Tom’s hardware said the RTX 590 DV2 will have 24 GB of VRAM and a 384-bit bus, which is reduced from the 512-bit interface found on both the 590D and the normal 5090. The RTX 590 DV2 would have the same number of CUDA cores at 21,760 as the normal 5090 and the 590D, meaning its primary cut down comes from the memory reduction from 32 GB and the drop in bandwidth. Tom’s reports a change from 1792 GB per second to 1344 GB per second. Based on machine translation, HKPC hardware said that the 5090 DV2 is expected to be released in August. The article did not include specific pricing information. As for us, we’re just waiting for the RTX 5090DV2 Super, which will bring it back to 32 gigabytes of memory. Up next, two quick case stories. Fantex and Montek are launching the first of their cases that we saw at Computex a couple months ago, now finalized and going to retail. We’ll start with the Fantex XTM3. So, the Fantex XTM3 is a $70 microATX case. It uses a ventilated mesh front elevated base for GPU intake from the floor of the chassis and claims support for up to 360 mil radiators at the top of the enclosure. Fantex says the XTM3 supports up to nine fans with the company positioning it mostly for larger component support like video cards and radiators while still compacting it to a smaller total footprint with MATX. In related news, Montac is launching its X5 and X5M cases that we also saw at Computex and talked about in the news videos there. The X5M is also microATX like the M3 and it’s focusing on affordability. The X5M is currently $55 on Newegg, though it might go up and it includes four 120 mil ARGB fans. The X5M is more of a small midtower case rather than the boxier compacted XTM3. Montex going for three front mounted fans and one rear fan by default. And if you want more visuals on these, you can check out our Computex coverage from about 2 months ago. So, Microsoft up now with the news that Microsoft is partnering with ASUS for an ROG Xbox ally handheld, coupled with rumors that Microsoft allegedly sidelined its own firstparty handheld solution. Laura Frier, one of the founding members behind the original Xbox, posted a video to her YouTube channel uh recently describing the state of Xbox as quote chaos end quote. and she called the ROG Xbox ally into question by asking quote, “Is the flashy new ROG Ally the real deal?” On her YouTube channel by her name, Frier stated this. There is literally no reason to buy this handheld. Obviously, as one of the founding members of the Xbox team, I’m not pleased with where things are today. I don’t love watching all of the value that I helped create slowly get eroded away. I’m sad because from my perspective, it looks like Xbox has no desire or literally can’t ship hardware anymore. So, this partnership is about a slow exit from the hardware business completely. Personally, I think Xbox hardware is dead. Fire’s comments also follow Xbox’s controversial this is an Xbox campaign, which states that several devices, including smartphones, laptops, and TVs, are Xboxes, which they’re not. On this note, she stated, “Exbox anywhere means that I can play that game on any platform. I can play it on Xbox or PC. I may even be able to play it on the PS5 or the Switch. So, why would I buy The Rag Ally?” Fire opining that uh quote I think Xbox hardware is dead end quote is in stark contrast to the fact that Xbox President Sarah Bond recently said quote I am thrilled to share we’ve established a strategic multi-year partnership with AMD to co-engineer silicon across a portfolio of devices including our next generation Xbox consoles in your living room and in your hands. End quote. And transitioning cleanly into our next story with foreshadowing actually in Laura Frier’s video too. Microsoft is laying off thousands of people across basically its entire gaming division right now. Microsoft. Okay. Microsoft has mass layoffs right now after a Bloomberg report suggesting that layoffs at Xbox would be imminent. Insider Gaming reportedly got a hold of an internal email from Xbox CEO Phil Spencer to Microsoft employees. The alleged memo reads, quote, “Today we are sharing decisions that will impact colleagues across our organization to position gaming for enduring success and allow us to focus on strategic growth areas growth. We will end or decrease work in certain areas of the business and follow Microsoft’s lead in removing layers of management to increase agility and effectiveness. Out of respect for those impacted today, the specifics of today’s notifications and any organizational shifts will be shared by your team leaders in the coming days.” The next part of the email is it’s a little weird, but it’s it’s not that weird, I guess, if you assume that they are writing for investors when they inevitably read the leaked email. It says this quote, “I recognize these changes come at a time when we have more players, games, and gaming hours than ever before. Our platform, hardware, and game road map have never looked stronger. The success we’re seeing currently is based on tough decisions we’ve made previously. We must make choices now for continued success.” This is just as I was reading this, this is kind of reminding me of something. Let’s just Here it is. Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make. Growth. Anyway, Lord Farquad, Phil Spencer continued and said, quote, “We will protect what is thriving and concentrate effort on areas with the greatest potential while delivering on the expectations the company has for our business. The focused approach means we can deliver exceptional games and experiences for players for generations to come.” Gross. Anyway, good time to start gaslighting for Phil Spencer. I guess that that last half uh that ain’t it. But the CEO added, quote, “Our momentum is not accidental. It is the result of years of dedicated effort from our team.” End quote. And just if this is what momentum looks like, I really don’t want to see what regression looks like. In a memo obtained by Variety, Matt Booty, the head of Xbox Game Studios, followed up Spencer’s message by stating, “I want to share more about the changes to the studio business units. We’ve made the decision to stop development of Perfect Dark and Ever Wild, as well as wind down several unannounced projects across our portfolio. As part of this, we’re closing one of our studios, The Initiative. Now, the original Perfect Dark games were made by Rare, but the Perfect Dark reboot was being developed by The Initiative. Rare, which was purchased by Microsoft in 2002, wasn’t spared. However, the studio was working on Ever Wild, which was announced in 2019. This whole thing is weird cuz I’m about to give you a list of a ton of studios that are getting the axe. And a lot of these are studios that Microsoft has sort of famously acquired for I collectively many tens of billions of dollars. I think the Activision purchase was like I don’t know, it’s like comparable to the Louisiana purchase. Like that’s how insane that one was depending on how you slice up the numbers. We did it when it happened. I don’t remember the details. I don’t I don’t like memorize Louisiana purchase facts, but I did briefly learn them for that news video when they bought Activision. Point is, they spent a lot of money and they’re kind of like getting rid of most of the stuff they spend it on. Several game developers and games were impacted by the cuts. IGN reports that Candy Crush developer Kanan and Bethesda’s London office were quote hit hard and quote. Bloomberg reporter Jason Shrier posted that Raven, one of the developers that worked on the Call of Duty franchise, also got hit by layoff. He also reported that Fortza Motorsport developer turned 10 had nearly 50% of its staff affected. Elsewhere in the Xbox verse where developers got snapped away, GameSpot reported that Hivemoon Studios was affected. The studio worked on Call of Duty War Zone as well as other COD games. Speaking of COD, even Sledgehammer Games, who worked on several COD titles, was impacted. Blizzard was hit with layoffs as well. And Gadget reports that five employees were let go from Halo Studios. Romero Games, which is the studio co-founded by original Doom designer John Romero, also tweeted that its unannounced game was being cancelled as a result of the cuts. Finally, Zenax Online Studios upcoming MMO project, codenamed Blackbird, which was in development for nearly a decade of work, was reportedly cancelled with studio president Matt Furer stepping down. So, to bring it back to Phil Spencer, growth, it realistically looks like Xbox is not going to do that anytime soon. We’re really puzzled by Xbox strategy here. It spent $7.5 billion on Xeniaax Media in 2021, followed by an unprecedented $68.7 billion on Activision Blizzard. That was in 2023, only to seemingly conduct mass layoffs at all those companies and their subsidiaries while continuing to hit rock bottom as a quote in sales. At this point, it’s just like, come on, do something. In total, CNBC reports that Microsoft will let go of roughly 9,000 people. The publication notes that this is under 4% of the company’s total workforce. This is on top of roughly 6,000 layoffs in May and an additional 300 in June. CNBC writes that quote executives are still trying to reduce management layers. End quote. It’s sounding a little Intel e over there with one massive difference, which is that Microsoft is currently one of the most valuable companies in the world. I think at the moment I’m filming this is the second most valuable company in the world by market capitalization at $3.6 trillion. and one of the most profitable companies within the S&P 500 according to Fact Set. All right, that’s it for hardware news this week. Thanks as always for watching. We’re going to be very busy the next several weeks. So, uh, check back regularly for the uploads. We have a lot of stuff, mostly technical interviews going up and discussions, but a lot of stuff I’m excited about. 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