Summary of the week of April 26, 2021
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A Commodore 64 mining bitcoin
The computer was released in 1982 with a MOS 6510 at 1.023MHz. The performance is 0.3h/s.
Linux 5.12 comes with zoned devices
More specifically, it is BTRFS that brings the support, so from now on, SMR hard drives managed by the host can be used.
i3-10100T
Krampak brought us the other day our twelfth Comet Lake, a CPU with 4 cores and HT running at 4.3GHz. Its performance is similar to an i7-7700HQ and is in position 62 of the overall ranking.
The first DDR5 memories come out of the oven
Two Chinese assemblers have manufactured the first DDR5 modules with a capacity of 32GB using Micron's integrated.
TSMC's developments for 2022
Amid the greatest shortage of semiconductors ever experienced, TSMC says it will release 4nm wafers in 2022 and that 2 and 3nm are well on their way.
A sample of Ray-Tracing
They have made a demo of the new real-time lighting technique, of a modified version of Metro Exodus.
30 years of Linux
It has been 30 years since Torvalds announced the first kernel. Here they have interviewed him about the operating system and Git.
Nvidia tries to cap mining again
This time they want to do it by hardware to avoid cheating. The limitation will come as standard in the new batch of RTX 3060.