Thu. 04/30 – Don’t Fight The Tape (Tech Earnings Edition)

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Four big earnings reports for four big tech companies, but we’ll leave that to the end. Intel launches a new flagship clip line, Andreessen Horowitz launches a new crypto fund, Zoom fesses up on MAUs, and Reddit goes old school with chat rooms. Sponsors: Tovala (text TOVALARIDE to 710-23) Metalab.co Links: Intel's 10th Gen Comet Lake for Desktops: Skylake-S Hits 10 Cores and 5.3 GHz (AnAndTech) Andreessen Horowitz raises $515 million for second crypto fund (Axios) Zoom admits it doesn’t have 300 million users, corrects misleading claims (The Verge) Reddit adds chat rooms for subreddits (Engadget) Smartphone Production to Drop by 16.5% YoY in 2Q20, Setting Historical Record in YoY Decline, Says TrendForce (TrendForce) Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more (CNBC) Facebook soars after reporting ‘stability’ in ad revenue after fall in March (CNBC) Press Release & Webcast (Microsoft Investor Relations) Twitter Q1: sales up 3% to $808M as it swings to a loss on COVID-19, mDAUS hit record 166M (TechCrunch) Tesla posts profit despite hit from coronavirus (CNN Business) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the tech meme Right Home for Thursday, April 30th, 2020.
0:06.7	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.3	Four big earnings reports from four big tech companies, but we'll leave that to the end of the show.
0:13.4	Intel launches a new flagship chip line.
0:16.4	Andre said Horowitz launches a new crypto fund.
0:19.0	Zoom fesses up on mouths and Reddit goes old school with chat rooms.
0:23.7	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:26.1	Intel has launched its flagship 10th generation Comet Lake Desktop CPU lineup with 10
0:39.7	cores all based on its Skylake architecture.
0:43.0	These chips can reach turbo speeds of up to 5.3 gigahertz and quoting Anantec.
0:49.0	Comet Lake is the fifth iteration of Intel's very profitable Sky Lake micro architecture
0:55.1	built on Intel's 14 plus-plus nanometer process at a time when the
1:00.6	competition is on to 7 nanometer with 16 cores.
1:05.8	The crux, according to Intel,
1:07.2	is that it will offer the best gaming experience
1:09.5	in this market.
1:10.8	Users wanting the 10-core 5.3 gigahertz flavor will need to purchase the new
1:16.5	top core I-9 10900 K processor which has a unit price of $488, and keep it under 70 degrees Celsius to enable
1:26.8	Intel's new thermal velocity boost. Not only that, despite the 125 watt TDP listed on the box Intel states that the
1:35.2	turbo power recommendation is 250 watts. The motherboard manufacturers
1:39.8	we've spoken to have prepared for 320 to 350 watts from their own testing in order to maintain
1:45.9	that top turbo for as long as possible.
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