Summary of the week of November 7, 2022

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Samsung presents its 1Tb integrated circuits

Samsung's semiconductor division has announced its new eighth-generation TLC flash memory, with which they have achieved 1 Tbit integrated circuits with rates of 2.4Gbps.

An analysis of Zen 4

In this entry, they have made a thorough analysis of Zen 4 where a comparison is made of the behavior of the jump predictor with respect to Zen 3.

Undocumented features of Linux

Someone has discovered that if the name of a process in Linux starts with X, the DRM subsystem API modifies its behavior. There are other examples, such as when VA-API reports that acceleration is enabled when the process is called vlc, h264decode or hvecencode although there is no hardware support.

Mastodon instance at Hardlimit

If you have a Twitter account related to technology and computing and you don't like the direction the social network is taking, you can already use our Mastodon instance at social.hardlimit.com

Linux on cheap phones

In this video, they show how PostmarketOS works, a Linux distribution for phones where they have installed Gnome Shell on a not very powerful mobile.

DirectStorage 1.1 available

DirectStorage 1.1 comes with decompression through the GPU in graphics cards with support for DirectX 12 and Shader Model 6.0.

Btrfs Undelete

btrfs-undelete recovers deleted files from a drive formatted in Btrfs.

Xeon E5-2697 v2

jordiqui brings us the fourth processor he tests in his ProLiant DL360p Gen8. Once again, he tests it in a dual-processor configuration and with it, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 achieves the 21st position in the overall ranking.

LG's stretchable screen

LG has presented a high-resolution stretchable screen. With a size of 12", it can stretch 20% to 14". It has a pixel density of 100ppi and uses microLED as a light source.

61TB SSD drives

Solidigm says it has ready SSD drives of up to 61TB that use 192-layer QLC technology with the goal of giving the final blow to mechanical disks. Unfortunately, prices have not been published.

Testing x86 programs on Windows for ARM

In this entry, someone has tested a good collection of x86 programs on an ARM device with Windows. It starts with World of Warcraft and reaches CPU-Z, passing through specific programs for astrophotography.

Second part of the analysis of Zen 4

In this second part of the exhaustive analysis of Zen 4, the performance of memory and cache is compared with Zen 3.

IBM releases a 400-qubit quantum computer

IBM continues to increase the number of qubits in its quantum computers. In 2019, they had 27 and now have reached 433. Their goal is to reach 1000 for next year.

There is starting to be an excess of chips

After a few months of semiconductor shortages, manufacturers are finding themselves with a surplus, but only of consumer electronics chips.

Asus continues to climb the vine

It seems that Asus liked the inflationary pressure caused by the cryptocurrency fever and will force inflated prices by selling the RTX 4080 350€ more expensive than the recommended price.

Why Rosetta 2 is so fast

Apple's x86 to ARM translator is famous for its high efficiency running Intel architecture programs on the M1. In this entry, they explain what Rosetta 2 does to be so fast.