Summary of the week of May 16, 2022

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The failure in Apple's GPU

Someone has been investigating a failure in AGX, Apple's GPU based on Imagination's PowerVR. During the process, he has been explaining the internal workings of any graphics processor and this particular architecture.

The challenges of Alder Lake

Alder Lake processors have 2 to 8 P cores and 0 to 8 E cores. As each type is from a different architecture, they carry different CPUIDs. But as DRM content uses the CPUID to determine if the file is being viewed on the same computer, you have to use the same CPUID for all cores. So how does the operating system differentiate between the two types of cores?

Adding emojis to error messages

Someone has created a library that adds emojis to stderr output, used by console programs to display errors.

Backblaze's statistics for the first quarter of 2022

Backblaze has published the hard drive failure statistics for the first quarter of the year. This time, there is a 6TB Seagate model that stands out for having had zero failures in 7 years.

The meaning of CPU load in Windows

When Windows Task Manager tells you that your processor usage is 100%, it makes you think that there is no processing capacity available. However, that interpretation is not correct.

EzBench Benchmark, a demo in UE5

A demo based on Unreal Engine 5 intended to serve as a graphic benchmark has been published on Steam.

Core i3-10100

Someone has brought us a Core i3-10100. It comes with 4 Comet Lake cores at 4.3GHz. Its performance is comparable to an i7-8750H and barely makes it into the overall ranking, occupying position 97.

Free games

Gamers! You have Bordelands 3 for free on Epic Games.