Summary of the week of June 28, 2021

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Windows 11 may not work on recent hardware

It's not about the TPM 2.0 requirement, but an artificial requirement that Microsoft has introduced. This makes it possible that the operating system can't run on the first Ryzen, Threadripper, Skylake-X and in general, any Intel CPU before 2016.

AMD is recycling kits for Xbox

They have renamed them as 4700S. They come with 8 Zen 2 cores and the integrated GPU deactivated.

New RISC-V processor

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has created a commercial and domestic CPU that can run Linux. It will be released next month.

Intel disables TSX in several generations

Transactional Synchronization Extensions are a repertoire that can increase performance by up to 40% in certain tasks such as database transactions. A handful of Skylakes and Coffee Lakes will be left without them.

The first DDR5 memories go on sale

It is a kit of two 16GB modules at 4800MHz that costs about 300€.

Core i5-10500H

Kynes has brought us this Comet Lake with 6 cores at 4.5GHz and HT. With its 65W, it manages to be in position 38 of the general ranking and of the 14 Comet Lakes we have, it is in the middle of the table. Comparatively speaking, it has a performance practically identical to the i5-9500 and doesn't stray far from the i5-9600K.

The attack on My Book Live was day 0

Western Digital removed a portion of code that could have prevented the deletion. In addition, it seems that it was the work of two hackers, a first one who set up a botnet and a second who, out of spite, wanted to sabotage it by deleting all the drives.

Mixxx 2.3 available

The open mixing desk comes with a new color scheme and a renewed aesthetic.

A computer that breathes

Someone has created a case with a rather peculiar forced ventilation that resembles a respirator.