HW News - Sony PS5 & Liquid Metal, RTX 3090 Using GDDR6X, Fortnite's War on Apple & Google

Hardware news has been busy this week: We're talking the Sony Playstation 5 liquid metal patent filing, the RTX 3090 & GDDR6X leak by Micron (oops), Fortnite's war on Apple & Google, & more.
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The Sony Playstation 5 liquid metal story is an interesting one, and also something a small bird told us about over a year ago -- but it wasn't confirmed at the time. Now, with patent filings under wing, it sounds like Sony has plans for higher-end thermal compounds in the future. In additional news, although it's a leak, the GDDR6X details for NVIDIA RTX 3000 cards came straight from an accidental Micron document release. Sounds like that's probably happening. More details below.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Recapping the Week (or weak?)
01:01 - Modmats, Mouse Mats Shipping Now
02:42 - Sony Playstation 5 Might Go Liquid Metal
04:32 - NVIDIA Prepping Ampere Reveal Dates
07:06 - Micron GDDR6X, RTX 3090 Outed
09:09 - Mozilla Faces Layoffs, Firefox Restructuring
11:46 - Intel Architecture Day 2020 & Tiger Lake
18:33 - Hackers Using Tor Nodes to Steal Cryptocurrency
20:44 - Fortnite Booted from Apple & Google Stores

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