Summary of the week of October 3, 2022

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LG's OLED screens

LG is preparing to manufacture OLED screens from 27 to 32 inches, without curvature, with a refresh rate of 144Hz, a resolution of 4K and a response time of 1ms.

An RX 6650 XT in a Pentium III

Someone has plugged an RX 6650 XT into a Pentium III. Among other things, he has played video in h264 format on the old Intel platform.

Stadia controllers may stop working soon

If Google does not release a firmware for the Stadia controllers, when the service is closed, the hardware will stop working.

Linux 6.0 available

Torvalds has announced the sixth major version of the Linux kernel. Despite the numbering, it is just another version without relevant changes beyond the typical improvements.

Radio Equipment Directive approved

The European Parliament has ratified the directive establishing a common charger for electronic devices.

Guide to migrating to Firefox

Someone has published a guide for beginners who want to change their browser to Firefox, especially aimed at those coming from the Chrome world.

Cuts in DRAM manufacturing

Just under a year ago, RAM prices started to drop. In view of a greater reduction in demand, Micron and Kioxia are going to cut their production of DRAM chips.

Raspberry Pi shortages continue

Despite manufacturing 400,000 Raspberry Pis per month, demand continues to exceed supply. Specifically, it is costing to find Broadcom SoCs.

Wireshark 4 available

The Wireshark protocol analyzer has reached version 4. One of the main novelties is that support for 32 bits has been abandoned.

The misunderstanding in the consumption of the RTX 4090

The RTX 4090 has unnecessarily large dimensions due to a misunderstanding between Nvidia and the assemblers. Nvidia thought that the graphics card would consume 600W but when changing from Samsung's 8nm process to TSMC's 4nm, the consumption has been reduced to 450W.

The first reviews of the ARC A770 and A750 are out

The first reviews of Intel's new GPU aimed at gamers are starting to come out. The results are not bad at all, offering performance comparable to the RTX 3060 and the RX 6600 XT.