Summary of the week of March 16, 2026

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They start selling kits with a fake RAM module

V-Color has started selling memory kits in which one of the modules is not RAM, but only the casing with the RGB lighting. With this, it is possible to be able to boast a dual-channel system in the current context of scarcity.

TCL cannot sell some panels in Germany

A German court has said that TCL will not be able to sell any of its panels advertised as QLED because they do not meet the expected image quality for this type of screen.

Board with mixed memories

The times when boards with different types of memory appear are back, only that now it is not to facilitate the generational leap. ASRock has presented a motherboard with DDR4 and DDR5 slots. The manufacturer has not explained the decision, but it is easy to think that many today prefer to go for DDR4 to later, perhaps, expand to DDR5.

Micron already produces the next generation of memory

Micron has said that it has already started mass production of HBM4 memories and PCIe Gen6 SSDs. The new RAM has a rate of 2.8 TB/s and improves energy efficiency by 20%. On the part of the new flash, it doubles the performance of the previous generation.

Porting Synaptics to Wayland

Waynaptics is a port to Wayland of the veteran driver for Synaptics touchpads. Synaptics has some features that the more current libinput does not have.

Gnome 50 available

Gnome 50 comes with improvements in parental control, accessibility options, file manager and in the document viewer among other changes.