Summary of the week of October 18, 2021

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Intel's new architecture could have problems with DRM

Intel's future Alder Lake will bring a DRM implementation that may cause games that are a few years old and have been left without support to not work on this platform.

Intel wants to get Apple back

The CEO of Intel has said that he wants to bring out SoCs that can talk to Apple's new CPUs to convince the manufacturer of phones, tablets and computers to return to x86.

TSMC updates its roadmap

TSMC wants to bring out 3nm chips in 2023. The new lithography will bring up to 15% more performance and a reduction of up to 30% in consumption. In addition, it wants to bring out 2nm wafers in 2025.

Reducing CPU consumption in Firefox

If you want to significantly reduce CPU consumption while watching videos in Firefox for Linux, go to about.config, search for gfx.webrender.all and set it to True WebRender.

Apple announces the M1 Pro and Max

Apple continues its roadmap to abandon x86. It has presented the M1 Pro (16-core GPU) and M1 Max (32-core GPU), both of which are 10 general-purpose cores. They will go into the next MacBook Pro.

Windows 11 on a Pentium 4

It seems that Microsoft has forgotten to add to the list of processors incompatible with Windows 11 the Intel 15 family of processors, corresponding to the Netburst. Thus, it is possible to install the new Windows on computers that are more than 15 years old.

Fourth generation of HBM is presented

SK Hynix has presented its HBM3 memory chips with a bandwidth of 819 Gbytes/s and a capacity of up to 24Gb per integrated.

Inflation reaches the Raspberry Pi

For the first time since the board was launched, Raspberry Pi is going to suffer a price increase. A rise of about €10 is expected for the 2GB model. This measure is temporary until the supply chain returns to normal.

AMD releases patch for Windows 11

AMD has released the first of two patches that fix the performance issues of Windows 11. This one is specifically related to the CPPC2 responsible for managing which threads go to which core. The second patch, related to the cache, will be released by Microsoft.

DDR5 memory could be more expensive than DDR4

MSI has said that it believes that DDR5 memory will be much more expensive than its predecessor due to the fact that it includes voltage regulators, something that, in turn, should make motherboard prices cheaper.