Summary of the week of March 22, 2021

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What is 3D Xpoint

After the announcement of the abandonment of this technology by Micron last week, in this post they explain what this technology is and what its objective was.

Core i5-10600K

Someone brought us this weekend a Comet Lake with 6 cores at 4.8GHz and a bulky TDP of 125W. Of the 11 processors of the architecture that we have, it is in fourth position. For its part, it is in position 15 of the general ranking. Having only one mode, it is difficult to compare its performance although in AVX2 it matches the scores of the Core i7-8700k.

Firefox shortens the references

Every time someone visits a page from another page, the current URL is sent to the destination server. Sometimes, this address can serve to identify a user uniquely so from now on, Firefox will shorten this address leaving only the domain name.

Intel wants to return to Tick-Tock

The manufacturer wants to recover the development philosophy that consists of alternating the increase in level of integration with changes in the architecture, which is quite implausible.

EUV films can now be used

The film was placed on the mask in older processes to prevent particles from causing defects. But with EUV, existing films did not work, which means higher production costs and a higher failure rate with larger surfaces.

Firefox 87 comes with SmartBlock

SmartBlock improves protection against trackers when browsing in private mode. In addition, this version of the browser brings the new referral policy that prevents the sending of information that could identify a user on the sites we visit.

Gnome 40 renews the activities view

In addition, the weather app has been redesigned, new options have been added to the keyboard settings and some aesthetic changes have been applied to other programs of the environment.

Hardlimit test bench 1.5 available

The new version of the test bench that comes with support for DDR5 and extra information about the memory can now be downloaded.

DDR5 modules of 512GB

Domestic DDR5 memories will start with capacities from 16Gb. Samsung is developing memory modules that are coming from nothing less than half a tera.