Summary of the week of October 30, 2023

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The LGA 7529 socket

Intel has presented its Sierra Forest platform, where a motherboard with a massive socket with 7500 pins has been shown.

Linux 6.6 available

Linux 6.6 comes with security improvements in Intel and AMD GPUs, Nouveau support for Nvidia's NVK Vulkan driver, better support for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake, and thousands of other changes.

The M3 is presented

Apple has presented the M3, which comes with performance improvements of between 20 and 50% in CPU and 20% in GPU compared to the M2.

Japan returns to chip production

Canon has presented a new machine capable of manufacturing lithographs with a gate width of 5nm. It uses microprinting and proposes a very considerable cost saving compared to ASML's EUV.

WD is divided into two companies

Western Digital is going to be divided into two companies: one destined for mechanical hard drives and another for flash memories for SSDs. The division will occur during the second half of next year.

Asus breaks frequency record

Asus has reached a frequency of 9.044GHz on an i9-14900KF. The previous record was on an i9-13900K at 9.008 GHz.

uBlock Origin 1.53 available

uBlock Origin 1.53 comes with improvements in filters and security. As usual, the developers remind that the plug-in works better on Firefox than on other browsers.

New Intel drivers

Intel has published drivers that increase performance in DirectX 11 up to 750% and 53% in DX 12.

Alan Wake II on GNU/Linux

@pos_yo has brought us a guide with the detailed steps to install and run Alan Wake II on Linux.