Summary of the week of January 30, 2023

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Seagate introduces its 22 and 24TB drives

Seagate has released 22 and 24TB hard drives. They have planned the 30TB for after the summer, which will be achieved by launching their HAMR technology.

Budgie 10.7 available

A new version of Budgie, the minimalist desktop environment for Linux, has been released. It comes with some functional improvements and quite a few internal changes.

An analysis of HBM3

In this post, they make a detailed analysis of the new HBM3 memory. Despite being the fastest option, its 2.5D topology makes its manufacturing expensive and worsens the power dissipation problems characteristic of this type of memory.

Linux reaches 3% audience

Linux has gone from representing 2.2% to 3% of domestic operating systems in a year, probably thanks to the popularity of hardware powered by the free system like the Steam Deck.

Hynix announces results

The memory manufacturer SK Hynix has published its results for the last quarter of last year, which were 1.4 billion in losses.

Critical update in Samsung SSDs

Samsung has released firmware to fix a problem that caused its SSD drives to age very quickly. The drives that have already failed cannot be fixed with this patch.

elementary OS 7

A year after its last version, the people at elementary OS have released the seventh version. The component that has received the most changes has been the APP manager.

AMD is cutting shipments

AMD has announced that it is cutting the shipment of processors to adjust the supply to demand to prevent prices from dropping. The measure is taken after the demand for PCs has dropped by 51% annually.

LibreOffice 7.5 available

LibreOffice 7.5 comes with improvements in the dark theme, improvements in exporting to PDF and countless changes in each of the components of the suite.