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Demand for Japanese equipment for the production of HBM memory has increased tenfold

The largest supplier of HBM memory remains the South Korean SK hynix, but rival Samsung Electronics is going to double its output of similar products this year. Japanese company Towa notes that orders for the supply of specialized equipment for memory packaging have increased by an order of magnitude this year, citing increased demand from South Korean customers. Image source: TowaSource: 3dnews.ru

New article: Computer of the month - February 2024

New hardware, which has just appeared on sale in Russian electronics stores, is just asking to be included in the “Computer of the Month” assemblies. Is it worth rushing to buy - let's figure it out together Source: 3dnews.ru

Debian 13 will use the 64-bit time_t type on 32-bit architectures

The Debian developers have published a plan to migrate all packages to use the 64-bit time_t type in the distribution's ports to 32-bit architectures. The changes will be part of the Debian 13 “Trixie” distribution, which will completely solve the 2038 problem. Currently, the 64-bit time_t type is already used in Debian ports for the 32-bit x32, riscv32, arc and loong32 architectures, but […]

iFixit specialists disassembled the Apple Vision Pro AR/VR headset

iFixit technicians regularly disassemble electronic devices to show how they work and how they can be repaired. This time they got their hands on the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset, which went on sale in the US earlier this week. During disassembly, an assessment was made of the internal layout of the device and its maintainability. Image source: iFixitSource: 3dnews.ru

Manjaro-based Orange Pi Neo portable gaming console announced

As part of FOSDEM 2024, the Orange Pi Neo portable gaming console was announced. Key characteristics: SoC: AMD Ryzen 7 7840U with RDNA 3 video chip; screen: 7 inches with FullHD (1920×1200) at 120 Hz; RAM: 16 GB or 32 GB DDR 5 to choose from; long-term memory: 512 GB or 2 TB SSD to choose from; wireless technologies: Wi-Fi 6+ […]

Gentoo has started creating binary packages for the x86-64-v3 architecture

The developers of the Gentoo project announced the introduction of a separate repository with binary packages compiled with support for the third version of the x86-64 microarchitecture (x86-64-v3), used in Intel processors since approximately 2015 (starting with Intel Haswell) and characterized by the presence of such extensions like AVX, AVX2, BMI2, FMA, LZCNT, MOVBE and SXSAVE. The repository offers a separate set of packages, formed in parallel [...]

Apple publishes Pkl, a configuration programming language

Apple has open-sourced an implementation of the Pkl configuration language, which promotes the configuration-as-code model. The Pkl-related toolkit is written in Kotlin and published under the Apache license. Plugins for working with code in the Pkl language are prepared for the IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code and Neovim development environments. The publication of the LSP handler (Language […]