HW News - PCIe 5 Demo, China-Only Ryzen CPU, Red Dead 2 Specs

PCIe Gen5 has gotten more tech demos (and CXL), there's a new China-only Ryzen CPU, and Red Dead Redemption 2 got PC specs revealed for this hardware news.
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Topics for this week's hardware news episode include the following:

- Red Dead Redemption 2 PC requirements and recommended specs
- Intel's marketing still needs work
- TSMC's N7+ EUV process hitting commercial availability
- Intel kills Kaby Lake G
- The next-gen Threadripper 3 CPUs might not be compatible with X399, and old Threadripper 1950X & 2990WX CPUs might not be compatible with new TR motherboards
- AMD's R9 3900 and R5 3500X are now shipping to OEMs and system integrators
- AMD announced its RX 5500 GPU, countering the GTX 1650
- Researchers can now reverse engineer chips much faster
- PCIe 5 and CXL demonstrations/discussion

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Host: Steve Burke
Editorial: Eric Hamilton
Video: Josh Svoboda, Andrew Coleman

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