Summary of the week of October 11, 2021

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The price of memory could fall by the end of the year

The president of Nanya has said that a downward correction in memory prices could occur during the last quarter of the year.

Samsung presents its DDR5 memory

In a press release, Samsung has presented its DDR5 memory that will be manufactured in the 14nm node and will have a transfer rate of 7.2Gbps, doubling that of DDR4.

Windows 11 does not slow down some processors as much

According to some benchmarks taken from some games, the announced performance drop last week of AMD CPUs in Windows 11 is not as large as announced.

G.SKILL presents its DDR5 memory

The rain of DDR5 memory models continues. This time it's the Trident Z5 series from G.SKILL that's up, which are 32GB kits up to 6400MT/s CL36-36-36-76.

AVX-512 begins to have applications

The AVX-512 instruction set along with its 512-bit registers have found a good application in Numpy. And it is that Intel has contributed to the Python library taking a very important performance leap.

25th anniversary of KDE

The people at KDE have prepared a page to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the desktop environment. On it there is a calendar of talks by people who have worked in the organization and development.

Nvidia drops the ball in its drivers

Nvidia has announced that it will stop supporting Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 in its drivers. In addition, it will stop including the driver for Kepler, which powers the 600 and 700 series.

The cache of the Ryzen is slower in Windows 11

According to some benchmarks, the cache of the Ryzen has multiplied its latency by 6 in Windows 11. Problems have also been found with AMD's CPPC2.

A 6502 at 100MHz

Someone has implemented the famous MOS 6502 on a Spartan-6 FPGA at 100MHz. The chip includes 64Kbytes of RAM.