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

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Published: 2025-12-02T14:00:00+00:00
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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?…

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