Summary of the week of November 9, 2020

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Flash memory reaches 176 layers

Micron has managed to stack two stacks of 88 layers to reach the new three-dimensional milestone.

Project Pentium – 3. Installing MS-DOS

Apparently the computer is ready, the battery doesn't lose the time, the keyboard works, etc...

Apple presents the M1

It is their new ARM processor that will be mounted in the company's next laptops replacing Intel CPUs.

UserBenchmark continues to benefit Intel

The popular benchmark continues to give a nonsensical advantage to Intel processors. Until now there were those who believed it was because the benchmark gave a lot of weight to single-thread tests but in a comparison of the Ryzen 9 5950X vs i9-10900K, Intel wins despite the Ryzen outperforming it in all aspects.

ASCII game list

Someone has created an extensive list of games for the Linux console.

Core i9-10900K

Someone has brought us this Comet Lake with no less than 10 cores, HT and 20MB of L3 cache. Unfortunately, the result is in SSE mode, so it is not being squeezed to the maximum. Despite everything, it remains in fifth position in the overall ranking and number 1 in its architecture. The closest micro we have is the i9-9900K which it manages to surpass even without using maximum mode.

The first engineering sample

Today we have received a rarity that has been difficult to identify. It is an engineering sample of what appears to be a Kaby Lake with a boost frequency of 3.7GHz. It has 4 cores, HT and 8MB of L3 cache. It is mounted on a PRIME Z270-P, so it is a LGA 1151 desktop CPU. Apart from that, nothing more is known except that its performance is very similar to that of an i7-7700HQ.