Summary of the week of May 1, 2023

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First wooden transistor

A group of researchers from the Swedish University of Linköping has developed the first wooden transistor with a gate width of 3cm and a nominal frequency of 1Hz.

Intel changes its trademarks

Intel has decided to change the name of its processors and get rid of the iconic i. The first core that included this name was the Nehalem from 2008. MeteorLake will be the one to launch the new nomenclature.

Dissipating 2000W

Intel is preparing a new cooling system for data centers capable of dissipating 2000W. One of the new solutions is based on a technology that uses a kind of 3D vapor chambers embedded in coral-shaped heat sinks.

Everything you need to know about floating-point numbers

Many people often consider floating-point arithmetic an esoteric topic. It is surprising because floating-point arithmetic is found in all computer systems. Almost all languages have a floating-point data type, computers, from PCs to supercomputers, have hardware floating-point acceleration, most compilers have to compile floating-point algorithms, and practically all operating systems must respond to floating-point exceptions such as overflow. Article on floating-point arithmetic.

Why do modern games use so much VRAM?

In this article, they analyze the VRAM consumption of different games and try to find out what factors have made this requirement increase so much in recent times.

List of commands for FFmpeg

Someone has published a list of the main commands for the popular audio and video converter FFmpeg.

We exceed 5 million files

Despite this week's pause, the file search engine has added more than half a million indexed files, achieving a total of 5,150,561 in 572,99 GB.