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Western Digital heads to court over fraudulent labeling of professional drives
We wrote about this case a few weeks ago. A few months ago, it was discovered that all three remaining manufacturers of classic hard drives (Western Digital, Toshiba and Seagate) cheat a little with the specifications of their drives aimed at the professional segment. Some "Pro" series of drives used a specific data recording method (SMR - Shingled Magnetic Recording), which is not as reliable as professional hard drives. In addition, the above companies somehow forgot to mention this fact and when it was revealed, it was quite a big deal. The most extensive was this fraud with disks from Western Digital, and the expected reaction did not take long. The company is now facing a massive class action lawsuit for unfair business practices. The lawsuit is being led by the Hattis & Lukacs law firm from the US state of Washington. The lawyers are currently encouraging all those who have been harmed by Western Digital's behavior to join the lawsuit. Given that the fraud involved discs that are not usually sold to regular consumers, it can be expected that mainly companies will be involved in the lawsuit. This may not be good news for WD at all.
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The PlayStation 5 will make it to this year's release, despite the current situation
An interesting mini-interview with the director of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Jim Ryan, was published on the Gameindustry website. In the interview, he confirmed, among other things, that despite the situation of the last few months at Sony, they expect that the PlayStation 5 will see the start of global sales no later than this year's Christmas holidays. Finalizing the development of the console is understandably very difficult, because, for example, hardware engineers cannot travel to China, where the console will be manufactured. In general, any work that involves hardware has been heavily affected by the coronavirus crisis. However, this does not change the fact that sales will actually start at the end of this year. Unlike Microsoft, Sony has been relatively tight-lipped about the PlayStation 5 so far. However, fans are eagerly awaiting the presentation scheduled for this Thursday, during which several other news and information about the console itself should be revealed, but in particular we should see more than an hour long montage of the titles that will eventually arrive on the PS5. If you're planning a PlayStation 5 and the current information drought is bothering you, you'll probably be in for a treat on Thursday night.
AMD's graphics chip for mobile processors gets a facelift
We have already written several times about the fact that Samsung entered into a strategic partnership with AMD last year. AMD is to create its own graphics core for Samsung, which will be part of the Exynos SoC, which Samsung places in some of its high-end smartphones. The problem with Exynos SoCs in the past was that it was not a very good chip. However, that is now changing, at least based on leaked information. Sometime early next year, the finished product should reach the market, which will combine the most advanced technologies in the field of ARM processors, with AMD's own graphics accelerator. It will be based on the RDNA 2 architecture and should run at a frequency of around 700 MHz. In this configuration, the 5nm SoC produced by TSMC should directly outclass the competing solution in the form of the Adreno 650 graphics accelerator, by up to 45%. The graphics chip should bear the designation (if the information on the website is true) AMD Ryzen C7. If the speculation comes true, the field of mobile processors could be suffocating again after some time. Apple's current years of supremacy is probably starting to eat away at the competition.
Sources: Arstechnica, Game industry TPU
