Summary of the first two weeks of December 2021

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Between seeing little publishable content and the bridge, the last two weeks have also been pretty weak. And now that this week I'll be tinkering with the new server and we've resumed translating the Pentium II video, it's likely that this week the cover will also receive less content than usual.

By the way, thanks to @Fassou for providing me with content in the face of drought.

Anyway, this is the summary of the last two weeks:

Toit multiplies MicroPython performance by 30

The developers of the Toit programming language claim that it multiplies the performance of MicroPython on the ESP32 platform by 30. In addition to the performance gained, it is especially interesting for battery-powered boards.

The 10 millionth Arduino UNO board is sold

The Arduino team has presented the Arduino UNO Mini Limited Edition board to celebrate the sale of 10 million Arduino UNO boards since the board was launched back in 2010.

Intel enters the world of photonics

Intel has opened a photonics research laboratory aimed at improving the speed of information exchange in data centers.

Temperature problems with Alder Lake

Some motherboard manufacturers are installing LGA 1700 sockets that do not comply with Intel's specifications, which is leading to temperature problems in the most powerful Alder Lakes.

Windows 11 could slow down some SSDs

After comparing the results with the AS SSD Benchmark and CrystalDiskMark on both Windows 10 and 11, it has been seen that the new version of Windows can significantly reduce the performance of some SSDs.

Packaging Python in Linux

Article by a Python developer: The Python community is obsessed with reinventing the wheel over and over, and over, and over again. distutils, setuptools, pip, pipenv, tox... it's a mess.