Summary of the week of April 18, 2022

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Dell's proprietary DDR5 modules

Dell has introduced the proprietary form factor for DDR5 that will be used in its laptops. It's called CAMM (Compression Attached Memory Module). Apparently, the idea is to replace two SO-DIMM slots with one CAMM that would integrate dual-channel.

WindTerm is a new console for Linux

WindTerm joins the long list of consoles for Linux. In this case, it makes it easier to write very long commands and stores large histories without hardly using memory.

Core i5-11400F

Someone has brought us a Core i5-11400F that comes with 6 Rocket Lake cores at a cruising frequency of 4.4GHz. In AVX2 it has a performance very similar to the i7-8086K with two-thirds of its consumption. It stays in position 25 of the overall ranking.

Why aren't lithium batteries recycled

The lithium and cobalt that batteries are made of are expensive materials. However, they are not recycled due to the high cost of the process, although the landscape is changing.

The trend towards specialized CPUs

In this article they explain how in the early days of computing, processors were of specific purpose. Over time, general-purpose CPUs began to become popular, but it seems that there is a tendency to return to the origins.

Calculating pi on a 4004

Someone has tried to calculate the number pi on a 4004. It is the first microprocessor, with a 4-bit bus and 10 KB of RAM with which he has managed to obtain 255 digits in 3 and a half hours.

Ryzen 9 5900HS

Someone has brought us a Ryzen 9 5900HS that comes with 8 Zen 3 cores at 4.6GHz. With a consumption of practically half, it performs almost the same as the Ryzen 5 5600X. The 5900HS achieves position 41 of the overall ranking.

Demo with UE 5

A demo of Unreal Engine 5 called City Sample based on the city of Matrix Awakens has been published.

New version of 86Box

A new version of 86Box has come out, an x86 PC emulator intended to run old software. It mainly comes with changes in the interface, although small operational issues have been fixed such as a failure that there was when loading ROMs.