Summary of the week of June 21, 2021

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The WD Black SN850 reduces its lifespan on the X570

The SSD has a 40% shorter lifespan than nominal when connected to a motherboard with the X570 chipset.

Graphics cards are starting to get cheaper

A change in the trend of graphics card prices is anticipated, which may be the beginning of the end of the semiconductor supply crisis that has been experienced in recent months.

AMD abandons support for the Fury, 200 and 300 series

These are GPUs that appeared between 2011 and 2015. The last driver will be 21.5.2.

The performance degradation in Intel CPUs continues

Last week, Ubuntu updated the microcode for Intel processors. This update brings a mitigation to a couple of security flaws. In this post, someone has been able to measure this performance drop which for the average user should be almost imperceptible.

China is almost ready with its 14nm

The release of these chips is planned for next year. It seems they would be similar to Intel's 14nm and the factories could produce the necessary hardware for PCs, phones and tablets.

ARM presents its secure architecture

The goal is to offer data protection mechanisms within the processor.

About PipeWire

PipeWire is a potential replacement for PulseAudio, the most widely used sound server in Linux. In this article, they explain in great detail how it works.

Presentation of Windows 11

One of the most interesting things is that they plan to support Android apps on Windows 11 through the Microsoft and Amazon Store by the end of the year.

Interview with a game developer for Linux

Little Red Dog Games is an independent game developer that uses Godot to create their titles. The CEO and the head of development are interviewed.