Summary of the week of March 11, 2024

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Samsung does not provide all information about its screens

Samsung markets screens with different types of OLED panels such as QD-OLED or WOLED. But just like in other areas of consumer electronics, where fewer and fewer details are provided about the specifications, it is difficult to find out what type of panel each model has.

About screen burn-in on the Steam Deck

The main disadvantage of OLED screens compared to traditional LCDs is that they burn in over time. In this post, they analyze this effect on the Steam Deck screen where they have seen that the panel begins to show signs of aging between 750 and 1500 hours of use, compared to 3600 hours for the Switch OLED.

The consequences of pushing SSD production

The CEO of flash memory manufacturer Phison has said that the planned reduction in production of memory for SSD drives, with the goal of raising prices, could lower demand more than expected. This adjustment in sales could put some manufacturers in serious trouble.

Linux 6.8 available

Linux 6.8 comes with the possibility of disabling vertical synchronization in Wayland, which will benefit gamers with a reduction in lag.

Radio client in bash

Someone has created a client written in bash for listening to the radio that allows you to record broadcasts and create lists of stations from a text editor.

What AI brings to hardware

Cerebras has presented an AI chip that has pushed the manufacturing capabilities of TSMC to the limit. They have used the 5nm process and it comes with nine hundred thousand cores, 44GB of (a kind of) cache and a trillion (Spanish) transistors. It is 50 times more powerful than the H100, the jewel in Nvidia's crown, and the goal is to reduce the number of processors along with all the auxiliary hardware needed to interconnect them.

New overclocking record

Someone has broken the previous frequency record on a CPU of 9044 MHz reaching 9118 MHz on an i9-14900KS on a ROG Maximus Z790 APEX Encore.