Summary of the week of May 9, 2022
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Apple abandons the last iPod
Apple is going to stop manufacturing its last iPod model. The first model appeared in 2001 and until the first iPhone appeared, 100 million devices were sold.
WD announces 26TB hard drives
Western Digital has announced its new 22 and 26TB hard drives that will use CMR and SMR technology respectively and will have 10 platters.
Nvidia releases free drivers for Linux
Nvidia has released the source code of its drivers for Linux under GPL/MIT license. At the moment they only have support for Turing onwards and it is aimed at data center GPUs.
A replica of Windows 98 in the browser
Someone has created a web environment that mimics the look of Windows 98. In essence, it is a desktop with different JavaScript applications.
Core i5-11300H
Someone has brought us a Tiger Lake with 4 cores at 4.4GHz. The i5-11300H is a portable CPU with a TDP of 35W that achieves the 75th position in the overall ranking and the second position of the 5 Tigers Lake we have at the moment.