Summary of the week of December 7, 2020

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M.2 slot graphics card

ASRock has introduced a graphics card with an M.2 form factor that comes with 16MB and a VGA connector.

AMD 20.12.1 drivers available

They come with performance and stability improvements in Cyberpunk 2077 and support for the RX 6900 series.

Qt 6 is presented

The framework on which KDE is based has a major version. On the announcement page, it is difficult to see the technical details, which must be buried among all the marketing that has been placed. One of the changes is that LTS versions no longer exist for projects that are not FOSS.

Seagate has its RISC-V processors

The hard drive manufacturer has announced that it will use processors with the open architecture to manage its storage units. Unfortunately, it will be a closed implementation.

Core i5-7400T

Someone brought us this Kaby Lake with 4 cores without HT today. Being a desktop CPU, its performance is similar to portable processors of the same era, probably due to its limited TDP of 35W. Of the 19 Kaby Lakes we have, it is in tenth position and in position 82 of the general ranking.

Microsoft presents its x86-64 emulation over ARM

The version compiled for ARM of Windows 10 will have the possibility to run 64-bit x86 programs through emulation, compared to the 32-bit emulation it has had so far.

CentOS disappears

One of the most popular distributions for servers has been abandoned by the company that supported it. RedHat has replaced it with Stream, a new distro with a different development policy than its predecessor.