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Intel has been slowly building out the Justice League of GPU marketing teams leading into its future graphics card launches, with yet another member of Team Red joining Team Blue.

I can exclusively report that Heather Lennon, who built the awesome AMD social and community strategy for the company over 10 years has now joined the ranks of Intel. Heather build up the Team Red community and won herself PR Week honors for Campaign of the Year, as well as Top 30 Under 30 from PR News in 2014.

Lennon secured a huge 40 awards for marketing and digital marketing for AMD before leading their North American marketing for AMD's own Best Buy account which handled both Radeon and Ryzen products for the company.

The world of 5nm is one step closer to reality with TSMC announcing it has completed the infrastructure design of its upcoming 5nm node.

TSMC's new 5nm node will roll out with the second generation of its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) as well as deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography. The new 5nm node will see chips made for next-gen SoC designs, 5G devices, AI, and high-performance computing.

We are told to expect, from early numbers on an ARM Cortex-A72 core that TSMC's new 5nm process will have 1.8x the density of 7nm, and a nice 15% increase in clock speeds. Not bad at all.

The latest version of HWiNFO has preliminary support for AMD's next-gen Navi GPU architecture, but also a new mysterious CPU architecture from Intel teased as Emmitsburg.

HWiNFO v6.04 also features added support for Intel's new Cooper Lake and Snow Ridge, as well as full monitoring support for AMD's still-kinda-new Radeon VII graphics card. There is also 'improved' Zen 2 support with the latest version of HWiNFO and a bunch of other things tweaked, added, and now supported. You can grab HWiNFO v6.04 right here.

A few people replied to the original tweet, including Ashraf Eassa who is a Senior Technology Specialist with The Motley Fool, where he said Emmitsburg is "probably CPL/ICX PCH", meaning that Emmitsburg will be the chipset codename for the upcoming Cooper Lake/Ice Lake-X platform on LGA4189. He added that he feels like this "will be the last PCH before SPR. Then I/O will just be another chiplet on the package".

We knew it was going to happen, but now AMD itself has confirmed that it will be unveiling 7nm products at Computex 2019 that will include both next-gen Zen 2 processors and Navi GPUs.

A just-released Computex Taipei 2019 press release says that AMD will host a keynote called "The Next Generation of High-Performance Computing" at Computex 2019 on May 27, 2019. The company said it will be detailing new 7nm AMD EPYC 'Rome' CPUs, 3rd-gen Ryzen CPUs which will be based on the new Zen 2 architecture on the 7nm nodew as well as "graphics cards based on the next-generation Navi architecture".

The company says that all of these new products have been designed to "create exceptional experiences for gamers and creators as well as help solve many of the toughest challenges in our lives".

AMD have squished a bunch of bugs in its new Radeon Adrenalin Edition 19.4.1 drivers, with Radeon VII and Radeon RX Vega series graphics card owners with more than 3 monitors shouldn't have any more problems.

The full list of fixed issues include World of Warcraft patch 8.1.5 or later having issues when MSAA is enabled, Radeon WattMan auto overclocking not raising the engine clocks past default levels on Radeon RX vega graphics cards, and more. The full list of fixed issues, known issues, and important notes is below. You can grab the new Radeon Adrenalin 19.4.1 drivers here.

Fixed Issues

NVIDIA announced the Turing-based GeForce GTX 16 series graphics cards with the surprise launch of the GeForce GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti which will soon be joined by the GTX 1650 and GTX 1650 TI according to the latest rumors.

The new GeForce GTX 1650 will reportedly roll out on the Turing TU117 GPU, compared to the Turing TU116 chip used on the GTX 1660/1660 Ti. The memory will be knocked down to GDDR5 on the GTX 1650 while the GTX 1650 Ti will reportedly debut with GDDR6, both with 4GB.

I haven't heard a peep about these new cards in official form, but have heard lots about them from various sources. We should expect a launch on April 22 for the GTX 1650 according to VideoCardz, and that's not too far away at all.

NVIDIA has just lost a major player on its team with director of technical marketing Tom Peterson leaving the company after nearly 15 years with Team Green.

Petersen announced the news on his personal Facebook account, where he said: "Today was my last day as an NVIDIA employee. I'll miss them. They carried me through some tough times and I am eternally grateful".

Rumor has it that Petersen has left for Intel, which has been vacuuming up talent with no remorse. WCCFTech is reporting from their own sources that Petersen is joining Intel as an Engineering Fellow and will be "reporting to Ari Rauch". Their report continues saying that Petersen will be responsible for "defining and delivering on the quintessential gaming experience - something Intel is going to be very particular about going forward".

NVIDIA didn't unveil a new GPU ar chitecture during its GPU Technology Conference last week, where I had some ponderings on whether we'd see the next-gen Ampere GPU architecture on 7nm unveiled, ultimately we didn't.

Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA, addressed this during GTC 2019 where he sad the company isn't in any rush to get mass produced 7nm GPUs because of the confidence he has in Turing. Turing is on the 12nm node and is more efficienct than AMD on 14nm (Vega 10 = Radeon RX Vega 64) and 7nm (Vega 20 = Radeon VII). He said: "What makes us special is we can create the most energy-efficient GPU in the world at anytime, and we should use the most affordable technology. Look at Turing. The energy-efficiency is so good even compared to somebody else's 7nm".

AMD was the first to reach the 7nm node with its new Vega 20 GPU powering the Radeon VII, but even on the exciting new node the Vega architecture can't begin to touch the efficiency and raw power of NVIDIA's Turing GPU architecture. Hell, even the previous-gen Pascal GPUs on 14nm are more power efficient than the 7nm Vega 20. NVIDIA has been absolutely nailing power efficiency on the last few generations of GPUs, learning and making huge leaps and bounds from the Fermi GPU fiasco.

Team Green is leading right into April with a window of opportunity for its marketing department: April 20 is right around the corner, so how better to celebrate 4/20 with a new GeForce 420.00 driver. Right?!

If you're not up with all the hipster lingo, 420 is a reference to - as the dictionary states it "used to refer to cannabis or to the act of smoking cannabis" and that "20th April (abbreviated 4/20 in the US), considered as an occasion for smoking or celebrating the smoking of cannabis".

Then also consider that NVIDIA is often referred to as Team Green (Team Red = AMD, Team Blue = Intel) and that green is the color of weed, 'green' is also another term for marijuana so the references and connections just keep piling up. Team Green releasing GeForce 420.00 drivers on 4/20 is too good to pass up, NVIDIA. You know what to do.

NVIDIA has just released a new batch of Game Ready GeForce drivers with the new GeForce 419.67 drivers dropping, with optimizations for Battlefield V's new battle royale mode Firestorm. You can download the new GeForce 419.67 drivers right here.

Not only that, but we have optimizations for the new Shadow of the Tomb Raider update that offers RTX features like ray-traced shadows and DLSS. There's also optimizations for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and support for two more G-Sync compatible monitors in the ASUS VG278QR and ASUS VG258.

NVIDIA users can enable NVIDIA Surround with G-Sync compatible displays, if you do the following: