Summary of the week of June 30, 2025

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HDMI 2.2 standard is published

HDMI 2.2 comes with support for moving video in 16k thanks to a bandwidth of 96Gbps compared to the 48Gbps of version 2.1. To achieve that flow, an Ultra96 cable will be necessary. All of this will become a reality at the end of this year.

DDR4 price multiplies

As it has been happening since the beginning of time, every time a new RAM memory standard appears, the previous version skyrockets in price. At the moment, DDR4 memory is tripling its price due to the reduction of its production to make way for DDR5 chips.

Pascal billiards table

Someone has created a billiards table in Pascal for Linux. It shows a 3D table where the typical vectors of this type of games are represented and the balls move with realistic physics.

msdos.club contest awards gala

Last night the awards ceremony of the msdos.club video game contest was broadcast live, of which Hardlimit has been a sponsor.

Nvidia abandons support for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta

Nvidia has announced that the 580 series of its driver will be the last to support Maxwell, Pascal and Volta. Despite the fact that today it is still possible to use updated drivers, the reality is that the best results are obtained with previous versions of the driver.

Packet analyzer for Linux

Someone has created a program called Sniffnet that is used to analyze all the activity of a network adapter in Linux. It has a fairly well-kept graphical interface and comes with the typical characteristics of this type of programs, such as filters, statistics and real-time graphs among many others.