Summary of the week of October 19, 2020

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Reducing the power consumption of the RTX 3080 by 100W

Reducing the voltage on Nvidia's new GPUs results in a 100W reduction in power consumption with a performance penalty of around 12%.

What is TTY in Linux

The Linux console, also called TTY (teletypewriter), comes from the concept inherited from teleprinters.

Intel abandons NAND memory

The developer has sold its flash memory factories to SK Hynix for 9 billion. At the moment it is not known if its Optane memory is included in the package.

Compute Module 4 available

The Raspberry Pi in reduced size has a new version that comes with a 4-core Cortex-A72 processor, hardware decoding of h.265 4K video at 60fps and the possibility of choosing between 1 and 8GB of RAM and between 0 and 32GB of flash memory.

Firefox 82 improves response time

Specifically, sites with flexbox content will load 20% faster and restoring a previous session will be done in 17% less time.

The LUMI supercomputer will have AMD CPUs

The consortium of states that has financed the European computer of 552 petaflops has chosen EPYC processors and Instinct GPUs. The launch will take place next year.

Debian donates $10,000 to Peertube

The project that maintains the popular distro will donate $10,000 to fund the development of the third version of the video CMS.

Intel will outsource chip production

After numerous delays and problems trying to increase the level of integration, the company wants someone else to manufacture its 7nm semiconductors.