Summary of the week of December 8, 2025

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Nvidia brings back 32-bit PhysX support on RTX 50

Earlier this year, Nvidia announced the end of 32-bit PhysX support on the RTX 50 series. Due to the popularity of certain games, the company has said it will maintain support for a short list of titles on current GPUs.

Winter comes to flash drives

The hardware supply crisis seems to have spread to flash drives. Sandisk and Samsung have started delaying shipments and Transcend has been out of supply since October. In this case, Transcend has dared to make a prediction that starting in the second quarter of 2026, the situation will begin to normalize.

New competitor in memory

The Chinese company CXMT has just entered the high-end RAM game. It has presented DDR5 integrated at 8000 MT/s and LPDDR5X at 10667 MT/s with capacities of 12, 16 and 24 Gbits.

HDMI 2.1 and Linux

With the release of the new Steam Machine, an old controversy has resurfaced: HDMI compatibility with Linux. Despite the fact that the machine's hardware has support for HDMI 2.1, the HDMI Forum consortium does not allow Valve or AMD to offer a free driver for that version of the protocol, so the gaming PC is limited to version 2.0.

Rust is no longer experimental on Linux

The kernel people have said that Rust is no longer an experimental language in the kernel. The code that is there is already part of the system and the experimental label disappears from it.