Summary of the week of January 18, 2021

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Intel abandons domestic Optane

They have decided to stop producing high-performance SSD drives for the domestic sphere. Despite this, there will still be mixed flash+Optane options for laptops.

Nvidia lowers G-Sync Ultimate requirements

One of the requirements to get the seal was that monitors could offer a peak brightness of 1000 nits. It seems that from now on the minimum will be 600 nits.

Desktop background of the color of your shirt

In reality the background is set with a color similar to what the webcam captures, which could be anything. At the moment there is no code published but with the proof of concept clear, it really shouldn't be too complicated to implement.

Ubuntu on an M1

In recent days some Linux compilations have appeared for Apple's new processor. A few hours ago, someone managed to run Ubuntu natively on an M1.

This is how the Nintendo DS graphics worked

In this video they explain how the graphics processor of this console from 2004 worked, which, as a novelty, came with 3D acceleration.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation develops its first microcontroller

The chip comes integrated on a PCB that is sold for about 4€ in a new product that they have named Raspberry Pi Pico. The chip is quite powerful to be a microcontroller and comes with a dual-core ARM CPU, 264kB of RAM and 26 general-purpose pins.