Summary of the week of February 19, 2024

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Intel has been cheating with SPEC

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has said it will stop publishing Intel results in its benchmark suite as it has caught the processor manufacturer using a compiler optimization that is not aimed at any particular task except to improve SPEC results.

Core i5-14600K

xavib has brought us the most powerful i5 in our database. The i5-14600K comes with 6 P cores, 8 E cores, and 24 MB of cache. This Raptor Lake manages to enter the top 10 single-threaded, surpassing several i9 from the previous generation, and is capable of matching the i7-13700HX in multi-threaded.

An oscilloscope with Arduino and ESP32

Someone has created Esp32_oscilloscope, a program for Arduino that can turn a board with the ESP32 microcontroller into a web oscilloscope.

Firefox 123 available

The one hundred and twenty-third version of Firefox comes with an important bug fix for Wayland. As a main feature, it comes with a tab search for those who tend to have hundreds open and then can't find the one they want.

Possible DRAM substitutes

In this webinar they talk about the memories that could replace the veteran DRAM starting from the next decade. These are persistent memories such as MRAM, FERAM, and ReRAM, with the first being the favorite candidate.

A peta-byte DVD

A Chinese research group has developed a technology that would allow the creation of a disc the size of a CD with a capacity of 1.6 petabytes.

New Nvidia control panel

Nvidia wants to retire its veteran control panel. As a replacement, it has presented a tool that, it seems, is much faster than its predecessor and unifies some functions.