338. Ryzen 7 9850X3D Stepping Leak, OpenAI DDR5 Buyout WARNING, AMD GPU Price Hikes

338. Ryzen 7 9850X3D Stepping Leak, OpenAI DDR5 Buyout WARNING, AMD GPU Price Hikes

Author: Moore's Law Is Dead, Bleav December 2, 2025 Duration: 1:53:33
Tom is done eating turkey, and ready to drop a bunch of leaks that piled up over Thanksgiving Break! [SPON: Discover Easy, Affordable, and Reliable PCB manufacturing with JLCPCB! Register to get $70 New customer coupons: https://jlcpcb.com/?from=moore ] [SPON: "brokensilicon“ at CDKeyOffer for $24 Win 11 Pro: https://www.cdkeyoffer.com/cko/Moore11 ] 0:00 Livestream Rescheduling and Thanksgiving (Intro Banter) 5:53 Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Power Generation (Corrections) 11:31 OpenAI’s Dirty DRAM Deal (Yes, RADEON is Raising Prices) 24:50 (NEW Leak) OpenAI DDR5 Store Buyout Leak 33:59 When will RAM prices go back down? 42:13 Many Techtubers Gave Horrible Advice 49:50 AMD Radeon RX 9060 Reviewed 54:52 (NEW Leak) RTX 50 SUPER & RDNA 4 Refresh Update 59:47 AMD FSR Redstone Ray Regeneration "Tested" in Black Ops 999 1:07:18 Steam Machine Pricing - Valve Throws Water on $400 Rumors 1:25:44 Panther Lake-H + Intel Workstation Leaks! 1:31:01 (NEW Leak) R7 9850X3D + R9 9950X3D2 Stepping Details 1:37:52 RDNA 5 GDDR7, Nova Lake NPU6, Apple x Intel, Nvidia x Intel (Wrap-Up) LINKS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/ubisoft-results-delay-came-after-sales-restatement-loan-breach https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGw https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal https://x.com/Jukanlosreve/status/1990209819895312608 https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-stargate-project-to-consume-up-to-40-percent-of-global-dram-output-inks-deal-with-samsung-and-sk-hynix-to-the-tune-of-up-to-900-000-wafers-per-month https://www.techspot.com/review/3060-amd-radeon-9060/ https://youtu.be/RuASMLRGFus?si=dCy_Iw7U1gUgbvBo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynb4raivIpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IWzvKxkKVc https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/the-upcoming-steam-machine-wont-be-subsidized-like-consoles-to-hit-a-more-attractive-price-target-suggesting-high-relative-pricing-valve-engineer-confirms-the-device-competes-with-only-the-pc-market https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1owg6ge/build_with_exact_steam_machine_specs_is_770_so_it/?utm_source=embedv2&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_content=action_bar&embed_host_url=https://www.techspot.com/news/110364-valve-explains-why-steam-machine-priced-like-pc.html https://x.com/carygolomb/status/1992734570899472434 https://x.com/mooreslawisdead/status/1989434787488989693 https://x.com/mooreslawisdead/status/1989433045473001967 https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1993037588928598342 https://www.techpowerup.com/343263/intels-alleged-flagship-panther-lake-h-ultra-9-386h-chip-gets-geekbenched https://youtu.be/ExpNObGI124 https://www.techpowerup.com/343200/intel-w890-workstation-platform-details-leak-ahead-of-granite-rapids-ws-launch https://x.com/Olrak29_/status/1995002677106020687 TSMC Arizona suffers power outage: https://www.culpium.com/p/tsmc-arizona-outage-saw-fab-halt Samsung Sampling RDNA 5 GDDR7 Speeds: https://www.techpowerup.com/343267/samsung-starts-sampling-3-gb-gddr7-running-at-36-gbps XBOX Full Screen comes to All PCs: https://www.techpowerup.com/343165/xbox-full-screen-experience-comes-to-every-windows-pc XboX Crocs launch: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/11/24/xbox-crocs-jibbitz/ https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/11/24/xbox-crocs-jibbitz/ Nvidia Accused of Enron-Style Accounting: https://www.techspot.com/news/110377-nvidia-denies-enron-style-accounting-accusations-amid-ai.html Nvidia Buying up LPDDR5X (Bad for Zen 6 Medusa): https://www.techpowerup.com/343074/nvidia-demand-may-double-lpddr5x-and-server-dram-prices-in-2026 Intel Nove Lake Rumored to Deliver 74 TOPS w/ NPU6: https://www.techpowerup.com/343227/intel-nova-lake-npu-6-delivers-74-tops-for-desktop-ai-pcs Apple Partnering with Intel: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/11/28/intel-stock-pops-as-analyst-sounds-alarm-on-potential-apple-partnership/

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