Summary of the week of January 17, 2022

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GPU shortage may ease in the second half of the year

Nvidia's CFO has said that by the second half of 2022, when the first Ada Lovelace GPUs are released, production will increase, alleviating the shortage of graphics cards.

Raspberry Pi sells its microcontroller for 70 cents

Raspberry Pi Direct is a new site where you can buy the RP2040 microcontroller in large quantities for about 70 cents, which is a 30% discount compared to the current price thanks to economies of scale and despite the chip shortage.

Operating Systems (OS)

Neptunno brings us a new entry again, this time focused on operating systems, where he explains the fundamentals and presents a list with representative examples.

Intel is studying the use of MESO

MESO (Magneto-Electric Spin-Orbit) transistors are still in the study phase but are a candidate to replace the veteran CMOS technology. Some advantages over CMOS are that it is not volatile and needs less voltage to change state.

Wine 7.0 is available

The Windows ABI for Linux, also known as Wine, has a new major version. Among many other new features, support for 32-bit programs has begun through Linux's 64-bit libraries.

Firefox for Linux now accelerates AV1

Video decoding of AV1 has been included through VA-API in Firefox for Linux.

Wifi 7 is already being developed

The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun drafting the IEEE 802.11be standard, whose commercial name will be Wifi 7. It is expected to reach 30GBps compared to the 9.6GBps of the newly launched Wifi 6E.

An image and video comparator

Czkawka is an open-source tool that helps you find images and videos that are similar to each other on your computer.

FFmpeg 5.0 available

FFmpeg is one of the most important pillars of open-source audio and video playback, editing, and encoding software. Its fifth major version comes with support for new formats, new filters, and additional protocols.