Summary of the week of April 12, 2021

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Seagate reaches 3ZB sold

It took the company 36 years to reach the first Zetta. Four years later it reached the second and two years later, it has reached its third. To store a ZB, one would need a billion 1TB hard drives.

Someone has unlocked Nvidia's vGPU

This is a feature reserved for the professional range and can now be exploited in any model thanks to this program.

Ryzen 5 5600X

HaRmFuL brought us the second Zen 3 from our database a few days ago. It comes with 6 cores with SMT at 4.6GHz and 32MB of L3 cache. In single-thread it stays in second position in the overall ranking, behind the 5800X from Bm4n.

Nvidia is preparing with Mediatek GTX for ARM

After Samsung's alliance with AMD, Nvidia wants to make a move in the lucrative mobile market.

55% growth in the PC market

The growth took place in the first quarter of the year. This growth comes mainly from laptops. Despite the first quarter of last year being a bit weak, this has been the one that has produced the most sales since 2012.

SiFive is preparing its RISC-V of 5nm

This manufacturer is working on implementing the open architecture in the most advanced node to date. The chip will be available in the second half of this year.

System76 is preparing its own environment

The manufacturer of Linux-compatible computers is preparing its own desktop environment. It seems that it will be an extension of Gnome.

Epson EHT-40

In this entry we are going to dust off a handheld computer that would not be of much interest if it were not because it is motorized with a 386 SX at 25MHz and 2MB of RAM.

Mozilla releases TTS for All

It is a library that converts text to voice with more than 20 languages available.

Video acceleration arrives at Vulkan

The open, cross-platform API will be able to encode and decode video in h.264 by hardware.

Core i7-7020U

Krampak has brought us this Kaby Lake in all modes. It comes with 2 cores with HT that move at a fixed 2.3GHz. It has the classic 15W of the U series and despite having a fixed frequency, HT is hardly noticeable. It fails to enter the overall ranking and stays in the second-to-last position of the 20 Kaby Lakes we have.

The CMOS battery of the PlayStation

The PS3 and 4 have a battery that keeps the real-time clock running. This clock is used, among other things, to evaluate if certain games can be played. When the battery is spent, the console synchronizes with PSN and can continue to function. The problem will come when Sony decides to close PSN and the time cannot be synchronized.

Firefox filters configuration options

From now on, it will be possible to show only the configuration options modified in about:config.