Summary of the week of November 28, 2022

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Valve patents a new VR controller

Valve has patented a new controller for virtual reality. In the details, you can see, for example, a finger tracking system. Although there are other details more typical of a patent troll related to the registration of simple adjustable straps.

A bug found in the 8086 is corrected

Someone has analyzed the integrated circuit of an 8086 and has discovered how Intel corrected a bug in the already manufactured die by introducing a special functionality for a couple of instructions, slightly changing the way they interacted with interrupts.

A heatsink larger than the tower

A liquid cooling system has been presented whose heatsink and fan assembly is larger than a tower.

OpenRGB 0.8

OpenRGB has reached version 0.8. This open-source tool allows you to configure the RGB lighting of different devices, from graphics cards to keyboards. With this version, the repertoire of supported hardware has been substantially expanded.

KDE now has support on the M2

A developer has managed to get KDE to work on Apple's M2 SoC with graphics acceleration. He has tested Xonotic, glmark2, and eglgears.

Core i3-12100T

Krampak has brought us an Alder Lake from an HP Pro Mini 400 G9 mini PC. The Core i3-12100T achieves the 80th position in the multi-threaded ranking and achieves the eighth position in the single-threaded ranking.

About the M1 on Linux

This entry describes in great detail how they have managed to get Linux to work on an M1 and, more specifically, how they have managed to get 3D acceleration to work.

What transistors will be like in 2047

In this IEEE entry, they have speculated about what transistors might be like in 2047, when 100 years will have passed since their invention. In it, they talk about the state of the art of the technology and what could come to fruition from what is being experimented with in the laboratory today.

The RTX 6000 Ada costs €10,000

Nvidia's professional graphics card RTX 6000 Ada has started to be sold for €10,000. It has 48 GB of memory, 18,176 CUDA cores, and 568 Tensor Cores. The RTX 6000 Ada is part of the RTX 40 series, unlike the RTX A6000, which is an Ampere, and the RTX 6000, which is a Turing.