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+	[* black] *Teardown Update:* Let's take a closer look at this custom AMD Radeon Pro 580X video card module:
+	[* black] When you pull the release latch, it engages two rollers on the opposite side, which simultaneously undock the card and push it away from the ~~mothership~~ motherboard.
+	[* black] Unlike the module itself, the silicon inside does not come out with a clever lever! A few sneaky screws are hidden under a giant sticker atop the cooling fins, and then we have to carefully disengage the lever mechanism before we can finally pull out the card.
+	[* black] For our efforts, we are rewarded with the following:
+	[* red] The main event! AMD's Radeon Pro 580X, (an iteration of their [https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/workstations-radeon-pro-500\|Pro 500 series for Macs\|new_window=true]) built on their 14 nm Polaris architecture, featuring 36 compute units.
+	[* orange] Two rows of Micron [https://www.micron.com/products/graphics-memory/gddr5/part-catalog/mt51j256m32hf-70\|GDDR5 VRAM\|new_window=true], totaling 8 GB
+	[* yellow] 2x MegaChips MCDP2920, likely something akin to their [http://www.megachips.com/Default.aspx?PageID=18962790\|MCDP2900 DisplayPort 1.4 to HDMI 2.0 converter\|new_window=true]
+	[* green] International Rectifier IR35217 buck controller (similar to the [https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/pb-ir35211.pdf?fileId=5546d462533600a40153567f9b7828bf\|IR35211\|new_window=true]) and NXP's [https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCAL6524.pdf\|L6524 I/0 expander\|new_window=true]

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+	[* black] *Teardown Update:* Let's take a closer look at this custom AMD Radeon Pro 580X video card module:
+	[* black] When you pull the release latch, it engages two rollers on the opposite side, which simultaneously undock the card and push it away from the ~~mothership~~ motherboard.
+	[* black] Unlike the module itself, the silicon inside does not come out with a clever lever! A few sneaky screws are hidden under a giant sticker atop the cooling fins, and then we have to carefully disengage the lever mechanism before we can finally pull out the card.
+	[* black] For our efforts, we are rewarded with the following:
+	[* red] The main event! AMD's Radeon Pro 580X, (an iteration of their [https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/workstations-radeon-pro-500\|Pro 500 series for Macs\|new_window=true]) built on their 14 nm Polaris architecture, featuring 36 compute units.
+	[* orange] Two rows of Micron [https://www.micron.com/products/graphics-memory/gddr5/part-catalog/mt51j256m32hf-70\|GDDR5 VRAM\|new_window=true], totaling 8 GB
+	[* yellow] 2x MegaChips MCDP2920, likely something akin to their [http://www.megachips.com/Default.aspx?PageID=18962790\|MCDP2900 DisplayPort 1.4 to HDMI 2.0 converter\|new_window=true]
+	[* green] International Rectifier IR35217 buck controller (similar to the [https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/pb-ir35211.pdf?fileId=5546d462533600a40153567f9b7828bf\|IR35211\|new_window=true]) and NXP's [https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCAL6524.pdf\|L6524 I/0 expander\|new_window=true]