Week 44 of 2019 summary

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How current electronics are made

This video explains the technical challenges involved in current generations of integrated circuits.

Tiger Lake-U could use LPDDR5 memory

Or they might not use it, because it's just a rumor. If true, the use of DDR5 in these 10nm chips along with a 50% increase in cache and the incorporation of Gen12 graphics would represent a significant improvement over Ice Lake.

TSMC goes for 3nm

The semiconductor manufacturer has put the pedal to the metal and will begin construction of a plant for the manufacture of 3nm chips at the end of this year.

Red abandons the phone business

The manufacturer of film cameras has tried unsuccessfully to get into the phone business. They released a €1300 model but it seems to have been a disaster.

Mounting a partition on HTTP with HTTPDirFS

The tool allows you to mount an HTTP directory as a disk partition. The result is similar to what is offered with WebDAV.

Nginx security flaw with PHP

The implementation for high-traffic websites FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) in PHP produces a buffer overflow in Nginx that can be exploited to attack the server.

MPV 0.30 available

The fork of MPlayer has released a new version that, among other things, brings hardware video decoding through Vulkan.

A320 vs B350 vs X370

This video offers a comparison between the three chipsets using a Ryzen 9 3900X.

The efficiency of the Core i7-1065G7

On Phoronix they have published a series of results that evaluate the performance per cycle of this Ice Lake in a Dell XPS. As usual, the power limitation imposed by manufacturers prevents getting the most out of it.

The history of ctrl+alt+del

Tale (perhaps too focused on Microsoft) about the origin of one of the most used key combinations.

Intel's discrete GPU

Next year, Intel will put on sale the DG1 Xe, a graphics card comparable in performance to the GTX 1050 GPU and with a consumption of 25W.

Intel's 10nm reaches all segments

The node that has been slow to arrive is reaching all integrated ones including CPUs and FPGAs. In addition, the company is preparing for mass production of 7nm and 5nm are already in development.

Benchmarking with AGESA 1.0.0.4

In this video, tests are shown on a Ryzen 7 3700X on an Asrock B450M Pro4 with AGESA 1.0.0.4. The boot time, CPU-Z benchmark, and CS:GO have been tested.

KeePassXC 2.5.0 available

The password wallet has released a new version that, among many other new features, includes the possibility of making a paper backup of the database. The idea is to get as much information as possible in the minimum number of characters, so that you can have a copy of your encrypted passwords on a non-electronic medium.

iPhone 5s need to update to stay connected

Apple has said that those who want to stay connected with their iPhone 5s will have to update the system. Otherwise, users of this 7-year-old phone will have problems browsing and using email.

AMD's greatest benefits since 2005

In recent days, the quarterly results of American technology companies have been appearing, and it seems that AMD has not done badly. All thanks to Ryzen and Epyc.

Gnome's anti-troll patent crusade

The organization has raised over $100,000 to fund its legal battles.

Fedora 31 available

The general-purpose distro based on Red Hat has a new version.

macOS 10.15 vs Windows 10 vs Ubuntu 19.10

Comparison of the most popular systems and Linux on a MacBook Pro. Ubuntu wins almost half of the tests while MacOS is the one that gets the worst results.

Ray Tracing in DirectX 12

Some developers have received information from Microsoft about the new features of DirectX that will come in Windows 10 20H1.

Chinese company begins MicroLED manufacturing

The production of next-generation screens is still in its infancy but there are already companies that are taking the plunge. Sanan Optoelectronics will soon begin mass production of 6-inch MicroLED screens.

Gitlab reverses its change of terms

A few days ago, the company behind the code repository decided to change the terms of service saying it would include a telemetry system. Now it withdraws the change.

The Renoir APU will have hardware 8k video decoding

HEVC and VP9 codecs can be used and the change will come to Linux with the publication of Mesa 19.3.

Unity will switch from Enlighten to RTXGI

The cross-platform game engine is going to abandon the Enlighten lighting API and will use Nvidia's solution.

Flaw in Firefox 70

In the latest version of Firefox, a flaw has been detected when loading some pages with JavaScript. In this entry they explain how to fix it while they release a fixed version.

ExTableta is born

The new blog will focus on retro hardware although other topics will be touched on. It is rumored that the first entry will be published in the coming days. Stay tuned to your screens.