Summary of the week of July 26, 2021

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Analyzing the EVGA failure

The manufacturing failure of this assembler is curious because of how rare it is and how it was found. At Igorslab, they have been testing with New World and other games to see what might be happening. For example, it has been found that the fan controller does not measure the rotation speed correctly.

WayDroid runs Android apps on Linux

The only limitation is that when using the host kernel, it is necessary to use a machine with the same architecture as the app.

Intel publishes its roadmap until 2025

The company no longer uses gate size to define its technologies but has created version numbers. By the end of this year, they will release what they have called Intel 7 (an improvement over the current 10nm). For 2025, they say they will have 18A for which they will use an improvement in extreme ultraviolet lithography, but no more details are known.

Emulation with native performance

Looking Glass is a program that prepares a virtual machine with KVM and pass-through of the graphics card, so the performance is similar to what would be obtained on a physical machine. The goal is to put an end to dual booting once and for all.

Gabe Newell advocates for open platforms

The head of Valve has said that the fact that the PC is an open platform is its greatest strength. The company has been betting on Linux for some time and its next piece of hardware will be the first x86 portable console.

Pentium 4417U

Someone has brought us this Kaby Lake with two cores at 2.3GHz that seems not to have the AVX set despite being released in 2019. The truth is that there is no model that resembles it in the slightest and it is that, although it has HT and the frequency goes to fixed gear, its multi-thread performance is inferior to double the single-thread performance in all tests. Here, external factors have probably come into play, such as the PC where the benchmark was executed being loaded at that moment, so more samples would be needed to have reliable results.