Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The BIGGEST Tech Stories of 2019 – A TechLinked Christmas Special”.
Hahahaha, it’s that magical time of year again, but who knew that the best present, you least expected, was a special end-of-the-year tech news. Roundup episode: that’s right, we’re taking a look back at teklynx biggest tech stories of the year and then looking to the future to see what technological and meme worthy delights 2020 will bring so put on the old 8k Yule Log yeah grab a cozy blanket and mug Of hot cocoa, because it’s the 2019 Christmas special, but first I have to get rid of this nope look. The holidays are all about happiness, hope and hot cocoa, but I’ll tell you who’s, probably not having the best time this year, guesses wrong Intel, because in 2019 AMD challenged Intel to a match of fisticuffs that didn’t turn out so good for Team, Blue. After being the less powerful, cheaper underdog for years, AMD, Rison and thread, Ripper processors are starting to look like the no brainer choice for not just multi-threaded applications like creative stuff, but also for gaming. While Intel started the year off strong with a 28 core high-end desktop part, more speculative execution vulnerabilities like spoiler and MDS kind of pulled the wind from their sails, I could have said spoiled it there.
We then AMD launched third gen Rison, led by the excellent 16 core 39 50 X, forcing Intel to launch their 18 core Core AI 9. 10. 9. 8 exe at $ 9.99 us James, I was half the price of its predecessor.
You knew that which didn’t even do much for it, because it was more or less on par with the 39 50 X, which is 150 bucks. Less AMD also launched new epic CPUs that were also awesome, followed by the launch of the high-end desktop thread. Ripper 39. 60 X and 39 70 X, which solidified team Reds new position of dominance so far Intel’s only real defense has been to slash its prices and move its launch embargoes to 6 hours before AMD’s, not to mention that Intel’s desktop chips are still stuck on the 40 Nanometer process and they don’t have the PCIe 4.0 support added in AMD’s new chipsets look I could go on, but that’s just not in the spirit of the season.
Let’S just hope Intel pulls it together, a bit in 2020, because dr. Lisa soos Eames fine when she’s the underdog. I do not want to see her become her uncle Jensen.
I mean Jensen he’s actually not her uncle they’re, like second cousins once removed or something but they’re family, and that’s what Christmas is all about. Next up, it’s the us-china trade war that Huawei found themselves smack dab in the middle of a story about a war, but it’s Christmas, James, the Christmas war, wonderful, Kringle versus the elves, so Huawei has been suspected of sketchy spy-ish behavior for years, but last December things Came to a head when the daughter of Huawei CEO, who was also the company’s CFO mangwon Jew, was arrested here in Vancouver at the request of US authorities. In February a huawei lab was raided by the FBI on suspicion of stealing trade secrets.
Then evidence surfaced. That indicated, the company had incentivized its employees to steal Apple parts and clone them, and after that a series of reports emerged about Huawei having backdoors in their network equipment and you know get out of there guys and even though the evidence was flimsy at best a Number of countries started banning Huawei equipment from the rollout of 5g networks, but not the UK. They still wanted to give Huawei a chance and damn their data. That’S what I called a Christmas spirit. Well, as usual Trump didn’t have any of that, and he made an executive order to ban US companies from doing business with Huawei. He does have a Scrooge McDuck vibe.
The ban meant players like Google, Intel and Qualcomm had to scramble as they reconfigured their deals. Business stuff had meetings plotted a new trajectory for q4. What did businesses do? Stocks for their part wow? I said they would accelerate work on their Android turn. Ative and they’ve already released a phone with no traces of it.
Google apps, that’s so close, I’m leaving it parts of the Huawei ban have since been lifted, but relations between the US and China are still pretty frosty. I would say I hope things thaw out come spring, but I don’t really trust Huawei either. So I guess we’ll just have to leave this one up to old Sandy Claws, Cheers and you’re not likely to find a story with more twists in it than the saga of folding phones. It’S not a twist.
I expect you to call me out on that. It’S like a bend. It’S not thank you. Thank you so much.
I appreciate it. A Chinese company called royal actually showed off the first real folding phone, the flex pay at CES last year and frankly this year. I guess frankly, I don’t think anyone was impressed, but that didn’t deflate people’s interest in the concept an Intel patent was later on earth, showing a trifold design. That’S two two folds actually but three exactly Samsung.
Finally, unveiled the Galaxy fold on February 20th, with a price tag of 1980 u.s. Benjamins, followed quickly by Huawei’s, reveal of the made X, which seemed like a more advanced design, with a more advanced price tag to boot me neither also Oppo showed off an extremely similar Design but swore that it wasn’t copied. Oh in April, the Galaxy fold got sent out to reviewers who promptly tried to peel off the screen protector and broke their phones, because it wasn’t a screen protector. It was just a part of the screen. Don’T you hate when that happens, whoops between the fake screen, protector issue and the phone being vulnerable to dust and debris.
There was too much negative press around the galaxy fold and Samsung delayed the launch to September people had much nicer things to say about it. Then. Meanwhile, we started to see rumors of foldable devices coming from Microsoft, Motorola even Apple, well, some of those rumors panned out, as in October, Microsoft unveiled the surface duo, a foldable Android phone and the surface neo a foldable Windows device both slated for release next year, although They don’t actually have been deduced, so they’re laptops, it’s technically cheating, they’re, not actually foldable phones, but I’ll.
Let it slide because yay something Wow and also in October Motorola took the wraps off their modern razor and although the phone looks sick, the specs do not and has actually been delayed. I just heard about that today. Well, we get more and better phones. In 2020, probably now it’s time for the Christmas stuff, that’s a! I should have called it now.
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Get delusions of Netflix and pour a ton of effort into making cloud games streaming a mainstream thing. Microsoft started talking big about Project X cloud and we even got rumors that Xbox games might be streamable on the Nintendo switch in the future. Other rumors initially made.
It seem like Google was developing a game console until they revealed that it was in a box. The future of gaming. Isn’T a box James get your think outside of it Wow.
That’S right. It was actually stadia Netflix for games type thing, but wait you still needed to buy games. It was as confusing as that light just was, but you Wade, you didn’t, need the controller. Unless you were playing on TV, it was a confusing mess at launch, but thankfully they cleared things up by claiming stadia would have negative latency. While we were waiting to test that claim, Microsoft and Sony announced a shocking and vague cloud gaming that we have yet to see the fruits of now Google’s promising many more games, features and quality improvements for stadium 2020. But what the heck is steam cloud.
Gaming steaming. 5G technology actually started rolling out in 2019, with Sprint Verizon and AT .