Summary of the week of February 20, 2023

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An analysis of RDNA 2

In 2019, AMD abandoned its veteran GCN architecture in favor of RDNA. As its own name indicates, RDNA 2 is based on the RDNA 1 architecture. AMD has introduced a series of changes to improve efficiency and keep hardware capabilities up to date, but the basic architecture remains the same. Article about RDNA 2.

A review of the history of WiFi

Wi-Fi was not the first method of wireless data transfer between nearby devices. The first PDAs used infrared, which allowed for syncing calendar appointments and email inboxes, for example. But infrared is directional, so to connect the PDA and PC, you had to point the infrared adapter and stay still for several seconds.

Linux 6.2 available

Linux 6.2 comes with support for the Arc series GPUs. It also brings drivers for the Steam Deck as standard. On the other hand, the reliability of RAID 5 and 6 in Btrfs has been improved.

SK Hynix production line stopped

A DRAM memory production line at Hynix is stopped due to impurities found in the materials used in chip production.

Tips for C

In this entry, they give a series of tips for C development that allow you to simplify code, although the result is less readable and difficult to maintain.

Apple buys all N3 production

Apple has bought all production of TSMC's new 3nm node known commercially as N3. They will be the chips that will carry the iPhone 15 Pro, whose release is scheduled for the second half of this year.

Why Grep is fast

In this article, the author of GNU Grep explains how the tool manages to be so fast in its searches.

Nvidia's fourth quarter results

Yesterday, Nvidia's quarterly results for the last period of 2022 were published. Revenue has been reduced by 56% year-on-year while hardware sales for games have decreased by 46% compared to the previous year.

Microsoft adds watermark to PCs that don't support Windows 11

Microsoft has started to show a watermark on computers with Windows 11 that do not meet the minimum requirements, encouraging users to upgrade their PC or return to a previous version of Windows. The watermark can be hidden by modifying the registry.

Transmission 4.0.1 available

Transmission 4, which came with a large number of changes, aroused such high expectations that the project has received an enormous amount of comments from users that have translated into a long list of bugs fixed with Transmission 4.0.1.

Tool to install custom ROMs

OpenAndroidInstaller is a graphical tool that allows you to install custom ROMs on Android devices in a very simple way.