Summary of the week of April 7, 2025

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Intel sells IPs to SK Hynix

Tactical moves are starting to be seen in the face of the crisis that Intel is going through. The company has sold part of its intellectual property related to NAND memory to SK Hynix in exchange for 1.9 billion. The package of inventions sold does not include the famous and defunct Optane.

Core i5-14400F

Someone has brought us a Core i5-14400F. It comes with 10 Raptor Lake cores and with its TDP of 65W, it reaches 700 thousand points. It stays in position 51 of the general ranking.

AMD's dynamic register allocation

AMD's RDNA 4 graphics architecture comes with something called Dynamic Register Allocation. This technique allows general-purpose registers to be initialized with a minimum size and to vary the size throughout execution. This helps RDNA 4 be less sensitive to latency when processing Raytracing.

GPMI as a substitute for HDMI

A consortium of Chinese companies has introduced a new standard called GPMI (General Purpose Media Interface) intended to replace HDMI although it has characteristics of its own from USB-C. It offers a bandwidth of 192Gbps and can move 480W.

New non-volatile RAM

Two German companies are going to start producing DRAM+. It is a RAM memory that maintains data without power supply and is composed of FeRAM integrated circuits. FeRAM has already been tested in the past and now they want to try again using new materials.

OpenSSH 10 available

The tenth version of OpenSSH comes with the mlkem768x25519-sha256 algorithm enabled by default, which is considered secure against attacks with quantum computers and has also become a standard in the NIST.