Summary of the week of May 2, 2022

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Core i7-12700K

Someone has brought us the first Alder Lake in the collection. It's a Core i7-12700K that comes with 8 P cores and 4 E cores. It has managed to get nothing less than the first position in single-core of the overall ranking and surpasses the i9-11900K in multi-core by quite a bit.

240W USB Type-C 2.1 cables

The first USB 4 Gen 3x2 Type C 2.1 cables are starting to come out, that is, USB Type-C cables at 40 Gbps that allow a power of up to 240W.

VESA publishes its variable refresh rate standards

The VESA video standardization association has published two standards for variable refresh rates. These are ActiveSync intended for gaming and MediaSync aimed at video playback.

Firefox 100 comes with improvements in Picture-in-Picture

The hundredth version of Firefox comes with the possibility of showing subtitles in Picture-in-Picture videos. In addition, the spell checker now supports several languages simultaneously.

First version of Unity in 6 years

Canonical has published Unity 7.6. It is the first version in 6 years and it seems that the development of the desktop environment based on Gnome will continue stably.

Core i9-12900K

The i7-12700K's first position didn't last long. Yesterday someone brought us a Core i9-12900K, an Alder Lake with 4 extra E cores and a frequency 200MHz higher than the i7, which has been enough to snatch the first position in single-core.

Security flaw in Apple's ARM

Apple's famous M1, M1 Max and A14 have a security flaw with which it is possible to extract data from memory even if this data is not read by any instruction, not even speculatively.

USB Guide

USB 3.2 Gen 1×1, Gen 2×1, USB 4 Gen 3×2... If USB nomenclature has lost its meaning for you, this cheat sheet will help you understand the meaning of their names.

Microsoft publishes the code of 3D Movie Maker

Microsoft has published the source code of 3D Movie Maker under the MIT license. It is a program that serves to make animations and appeared in 95.

Xeon E5-2660 v2

Jordiqui has brought us a dual Xeon E5-2660 v2 that comes with a total of 20 Ivy Bridge cores at 2.2GHz. Its single-core performance is not great, but in multi-core it ends up in position 34, with a performance very similar to the Ryzen 7 3800X.

Repairing the screen of the Contura 420C

In this entry we are going to repair the screen of a laptop that appeared back in October of 95 and that originally came with a 486 DX4 at 75MHz, 4MB of RAM, 350MB of hard drive and an 8-bit color STN screen of 640x480.