Summary of the week of November 4, 2024

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Avoiding quantum effects

Silicon technology has long reached its ceiling and increasing the level of integration a little has an immense cost. But a group of researchers at MIT has found a way to continue reducing the size of wires and gates while also reducing the operating voltage.

Valve improves AMD GPU performance

A Valve engineer has been tinkering with the Vulkan RADV driver for AMD graphics cards, so that with Mesa 24.3, FSR2 performance has improved. Increases of more than 200% in frame rate have been seen using a specific FSR2 benchmark.

Intel Core i5-13500

Someone has brought us an i5-13500. Raptor Lake comes with 6 P cores and 8 E. With its TDP of 65W, it achieves the 35th position in the overall ranking.

AMD surpasses Intel in data center sales

For the first time, AMD has surpassed Intel in data center revenue, although both are still far from Nvidia. It should be noted that in the case of AMD, in addition to EPYC, revenue includes MI accelerators while Intel only sells its Xeon platforms.