Summary of the week of May 4, 2020

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Intel's graphics card is not for gaming

One of the technical leaders of Intel's discrete graphics division has said that Xe-HP will be aimed at data centers. He also says that when it comes to consumer GPUs, they will continue to focus on integrated cards.

Using MicroLED for projectors

MicroLED is one of those technologies that will change the entire field of image and, at the same time, is making itself known by not showing signs of reaching the average consumer in the short term. But from time to time, news come out about its potential and evolution. In this video, there is a demonstration of a screen with a brightness of one million nits that serves as a proof of concept for applying this technology to projectors.

10 years of Systemd: a retrospective

This extensive article talks about what has become of the most used and most criticized process manager in Linux.

Inkscape 1.0 available

After 17 years of development, the free vector image editing tool has its first stable version.

Evolution of CUDA processing

Someone has published an article explaining the evolution of the use of graphics cards for computing. The beginning dates back to 2006 with the Tesla architecture.

Firefox 76 improves account security

Most of the changes come from Lockwise, the browser's password wallet. The new features focus on warning messages when a security flaw is discovered on a site where you have an account. In addition to warning about the security flaw, it warns you about other sites where you have used the same credentials. Finally, the possibility of automatically generating secure passwords when creating new accounts has been added.

Microsoft Office for Linux

It is not a native version but a new way of communicating with a virtual machine to make it seem like it is. A certain Hayden Barnes has made a demonstration where he says he is not using Wine, the cloud or anything like that, although he has not given more details.

Huawei presents its computers

These are desktop computers that work with its new HarmonyOS system. It comes with up to 64 cores of armv8.2 and DDR4 memory support.

Intel graphics drivers 27.20.100.8187

They are the first version to come unlocked, so they can be installed on any machine that until now could only use the drivers provided by the manufacturer. They bring improvements in Shader Model 6.5 and DirectML.

Analysis of the Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X

AMD's processors for tight budgets (€100-120) seem to have a performance equal to or superior to a Core i7-7700k (€300 second-hand). In this forum thread you have a list of analyses of the two models.

AMD announces Ryzen Pro 4000 for laptops

They will be processors with 4, 6 and 8 Zen 2 cores for the Ryzen 3, 5 and 7 models respectively that will come with SMT and Vega 5, 6 and 7 graphics. The term Pro refers to services for business clients and is the equivalent of Intel's vPro.

Intel presents its 144-layer flash memories

In some point of 2021, fourth-generation Optane PCIe drives will appear that could provide capacities of up to 3TB.

Zen 3 needs a 500 series chipsets

The Ryzen 4000 will maintain the AM4 socket but will need a motherboard with a 500 series chipset.

Ryzen 3 3200G

Namiga brings us a Zen+ in all modes with integrated graphics, 4 cores without SMT, a boost frequency of 4GHz and a TDP of 65W. One of the most similar processors, as could not be otherwise, is the 2400G. It stays in position 49 in the single-thread ranking and in position 45 in multi-thread. As for efficiency, it stays in position 76, probably because of the integrated graphics. Of the list of Zen+ micros, it stays in second to last position and of a total of 5 models that we have at the moment.