Summary of the week of November 8, 2021

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Seagate introduces the first NVMe hard drive

Seagate has introduced the first mechanical drive with support for Non-Volatile Memory Express, a protocol conceived and used exclusively so far by SSD drives.

Reverse engineering the Yamaha DX7

Someone has documented the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer through photos of the die. The chip has 50,000 transistors and was released on the market in 83.

Nvidia releases NIS

Nvidia has announced that it will publish the source code of its algorithm for image scaling (NVIDIA Image Scaling), so it will now be available for any game.

New security flaw in Intel processors

A new security flaw in Intel CPUs allows an attacker to access the data of the TPM module in less than 10 minutes, thus allowing access to data encrypted by Bitlocker.

Apple changes its repair policy

The apple company has made a radical and unexpected change of strategy that consists of offering its customers spare parts, manuals and tools so that they can repair their iPhones.

DDR5 is scarce

Manufacturers of the newly launched DDR5 memory are struggling due to the lack of PMIC power management chips.