Summary of the week of September 23, 2024

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I leave the summary of the week with a day's delay due to technical problems that have already been solved:

Rumors about Intel's purchase

Over the past few days, rumors have been circulating about a possible purchase of Intel by Qualcomm. As the hours pass, the information seems increasingly implausible in an attempt to manipulate the valuation of the shares of both companies. In any case, there is neither confirmation nor denial from any of the parties. On another note, Qualcomm is going to lay off more than 200 workers from its San Diego offices.

Linux on a 4004

Intel's 4004 was the first microprocessor in history. Until that moment, computers worked with discrete components. Well, someone has managed to run Linux on this historic model, documenting the process in detail.

The end of the use of GPUs for AI

The CEO of AMD has said that in 5 years, GPUs will no longer be used for AI processing and instead will resort to ASICs designed specifically for the task.

Performance improvements in Linux 6.12

Linux 6.12 will come with something called fast user access validation that will improve the performance of the patches that were implemented for the Spectre vulnerabilities and other flaws related to speculative execution.

Valve is working on its implementation of Wayland

Valve believes that the multiple implementations of Wayland are being developed at an excessively slow pace, so it has decided to start its own.

LG begins to show advertising on its TVs

LG TVs have started to show advertising when a screensaver is activated that appears when pausing a program. For now, it is possible to deactivate the screensaver (and its advertising), although it comes activated by default.

Core i5-13400F

Someone has brought us a Core i5-13400F. It has 4 P cores and 6 E cores with which it manages to place itself in the middle of the general ranking table. Its performance is similar to that of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.

LibreOffice turns 14 years old

LibreOffice, the office suite successor to OpenOffice, which in turn succeeded StarOffice and this in turn to StarWriter, and whose birth occurred when suspicions began to grow on the part of the community due to the purchase of Sun by Oracle, has turned 14 years old.