Summary of the week of October 10, 2022

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Alder Lake BIOS code stolen

Intel has confirmed that the BIOS source code for Alder Lake has been stolen. Against all expectations, it encourages those who review the code to find flaws and will be rewarded for it.

First RISC-V laptop

The first laptop powered by a RISC-V processor is now on sale. Despite being an unknown architecture in the domestic sphere and needing a push for its adoption, the price of the computer is €1500 for the most basic model.

Major manufacturers announce tough times

Samsung, AMD and other semiconductor manufacturers have detected a drop in demand much more pronounced than expected.

First budget AM5 motherboards appear

The first budget motherboards for the new AM5 platform have started to come out. The most basic ones with the B650 chipset start at €170 and the B650E reach €450.

VirtualBox 7.0 available

The seventh version of VirtualBox is now available. It comes with virtual machine encryption and support for DirectX 11 on Windows and DXVK on Linux among many other things.

Purges begin at Intel

After the poor third quarter data seen by the major tech companies and in view of a gloomy future, Intel is going to lay off about twenty thousand employees.

A demonstration of DLSS 3

In this video, they demonstrate Nvidia's DLSS 3, where they check the image quality, latency and VSync.

Plasma 5.26 available

The KDE desktop environment has reached version 5.26. It seems to come with more relevant changes than usual. Among other things, it brings animated desktop wallpapers.

Core i7-12700H

Someone has brought us another Alder Lake. The Core i7-12700H comes with 6 P cores and 8 E cores. Despite being a micro laptop, its bloated TDP leaves it in position 15 of the overall ranking.