Summary of the week of February 14, 2022

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Intel announces its integrated mining

Intel has presented an integrated chip for cryptocurrency mining that promises a thousand times more performance per watt than a GPU. Although the principles that incentivize miners will not reduce the energy consumed, it is possible that it will reduce the tension in the shortage of GPUs.

Ryzen 5 1600

Someone has brought us a first-generation Zen with 6 cores and SMT. The Ryzen 5 1600 achieves the 68th position in the overall ranking and takes away the fourth position of the architecture from the Ryzen 5 2400G.

Snake game in assembler

Someone has developed the Snake game in x86-64 assembler for the Linux console.

Xeon E5-2680 v2

jordiqui has brought us a result of his new cucumber with two Ivy Bridge Xeons. We will have to adapt the visualization of results a bit to multiprocessor systems, although for now it is known that its 20 cores are in the 19th position in the overall ranking and multiply by almost 3 the score of the second Ivy Bridge we have.

Intel buys Tower Semiconductor

Intel has bought the semiconductor manufacturer Tower Semiconductor. This acquisition will increase the production capacity of the Santa Clara company.

The chip shortage will last a long time

According to the CEO of AMD, the chip shortage will begin to improve during the second half of 2022 but will not end this year.

Intel expands its repertoire of licenses

Processor manufacturers can now buy x86 licenses from Intel to create CPUs with multiple architectures, which would allow the development of ARM processors compatible with x86 without emulation.

Graphics cards continue to fall

The Radeon RX 6000 series has its lowest price in the last 13 months and the GeForce RTX 30 series has a price similar to July last year.

Micron ends Ballistix

Micron has decided to stop offering the Ballistix range from its Crucial subsidiary. Ballistix were the high-performance domestic memory of the brand.

Videos as wallpaper

video-wallpaper allows you to put videos as wallpaper. It has low CPU consumption when doing hardware decoding.

Core i3-1115G4

Namiga has brought us a Core i3-1115G4 in all modes. It is a CPU with two Tiger Lake cores running at 4.1GHz. It does not manage to enter the multithread ranking but is in the 45th position in single-thread.