Summary of the week of June 13, 2022

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Intel 4 process details

The Intel 4 process, also known as 7nm lithography, will be the predecessor of the troubled 10nm. This article explains its design, the materials used and EUV technology.

AMD's roadmap for the next two years

AMD has unveiled its roadmap until 2024. It talks about its 3nm lithography, Zen 5 and the fourth generation of its Infinity architecture.

Get ARK: Survival Evolved for free on Steam

Steam offers us the opportunity to claim a game from its catalog completely free of charge, for this occasion the game is ARK: Survival Evolved and we have until June 19, 2022 at 7pm to claim it.

Samsung Z Flip 3 test result

A few days ago, someone started opening and closing the Samsung Z Flip 3 to check how long its flexible screen would last. The result was 418,500 cycles, more than double what the manufacturer promised.

Mozilla takes charge of K-9 Mail

Mozilla is going to take charge of the development of the popular open-source email client for Android K-9 Mail and will be renamed Thunderbird for Android.

Torvalds' talk at Aalto University

Today marks 10 years since Linus Torvalds gave Nvidia the boot in a talk he gave at the Finnish university of Aalto. You can watch the full talk subtitled in our videos section.

A task organizer for the console

Someone has created please, a task organizer for the Linux console.

i3-12100F

Someone brought us the first Alder Lake in our collection that comes without E cores a few days ago. The Core i3-12100F has 4 P cores at 4.3GHz that achieve nothing less than the fourth global position in single-thread.

Advantages and disadvantages of integrated audio

In this article they do a detailed analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of integrated audio, possible solutions and external alternatives.

Microsoft abandons Internet Explorer

The once ubiquitous browser will stop receiving support from Microsoft starting today. The first version of Internet Explorer appeared in August of '95.

Firefox's cookie protection is enabled by default

After a few months in production, Mozilla has decided to enable its total cookie protection in Firefox by default. This protection consists of isolating the cookies of each site that is visited.

AVX512 is also good for emulating the PS3

It seems that the AVX512 instruction set significantly improves the performance of PlayStation 3 emulation. The reason is that the Cell used instructions very similar to those offered by Intel's repertoire and it is possible to make a direct translation.

Core i3-10110U

Krampak has brought us a Comet Lake in all its modes with two cores and 15W. The Core i3-10110U manages to sneak into the 89th position in the single-thread ranking. As usually happens with the U series, despite HT, it barely doubles that performance in multi-thread so it would still have to double its multi-thread score to enter the top 10.