Summary of the week of November 14, 2022

[cobito]

Mediatek has its SoC ready for VR

Mediatek's first chip for virtual reality will be the one that will power Sony's VR2 glasses. Among other features, the PlayStation set has two HDR screens of 4000x2040.

Nintendo talks about backward compatibility and new hardware

Miyamoto has said that it is now much easier to offer backward compatibility of games than before. He also says that Nintendo is good at making new games that can't be played with the available hardware.

Nvidia is still working on dual GPU management in Linux

Nvidia has proposed an API to manage systems with dual GPUs in Linux. Its API would make a dynamic change of GPU from the KMS.

A fork of Temple OS

Someone has created a fork of Temple OS, one of the most strange functional operating systems. ZealOS wants to continue the legacy of Terry A. Davis by improving the documentation so that anyone can use it.

An in-depth review of RDNA 3

In this entry they have done an in-depth analysis of the RDNA 3 graphics architecture. The analysis is based on a fairly dense presentation by AMD's chief GPU architect.

Firefox 107 available

Firefox 107 comes with a long list of corrected vulnerabilities. In addition, the energy profiling that visualizes the recorded performance data now works on Intel processors in Linux.

Micron announces production cuts

Micron is going to reduce the production of DRAM and NAND wafers by 20% in anticipation of a reduction in demand for 2023.

Quixel Plugin for Linux

The people from Unreal Engine have published version 5.1 of the graphics engine that comes with the Quixel Plugin for Linux.

AMD releases the code of its Raytracing analyzer

AMD has published the code of RRA, a Raytracing analyzer for its Radeons. The program serves to help developers evaluate the performance of Raytracing. It is now part of GPUOpen and its code is published on Github under the MIT license.