Summary of the week of February 7, 2022

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Steam Deck now has official Linux support

The drivers for the Steam Deck hardware have been incorporated into the Linux kernel. Among the devices are the CPU fan control, battery temperature measurements, and screen configurations, among others.

Security flaws in 25 UEFIs

Dozens of security flaws have been found in the UEFIs of computers from Fujitsu, Siemens, Dell, HP, HPE, and Lenovo, among others. The common flaw is caused by InsydeH2O, an SDK that all these manufacturers use to develop their firmwares.

Nvidia's ARM purchase is canceled

The Japanese conglomerate Softbank has thrown in the towel on the sale of ARM to Nvidia due to the obstacles that the US Trade Commission, the British government, and the EU have put in place.

Firefox 97 available

Firefox 97 has just been released. The scroll bar with the Windows 11 style has been implemented and the response time when changing tabs on MacOS has been improved.

European Chip Act

The EU is going to invest 11 billion until 2030 to boost the development of 2 nm nodes and build mega semiconductor factories.

Coloring the console

Someone has created a tool that generates ANSI escape codes that allow you to color the text of the console.

Core i7-10700

garciaij has brought us a CPU with 8 Comet Lake cores at 4.8GHz. It gets the fourth position in the architecture ranking and the seventeenth position in the general ranking. Its performance is very similar to the i9-9900K/F.

Western Digital loses 6.5 EB of flash memory

Western Digital and Kioxia (formerly Toshiba) have reported that several of their joint factories have had a contamination problem that has ruined 6.5 exabytes of memory intended for SSDs.

Core i7-11800H

jordiqui brings us a Tiger Lake with 8 cores, HT, and a generous amount of cache. Each core has 1.2MB of L2 cache and 24MB of L3. With a TDP of 45W, it ranks thirteenth in the general ranking.