The first mass platform supporting DDR5 RAM appeared two years ago. During this time, a lot of water has passed under the bridge: Intel has released three generations of Core chips; AMD introduced a completely new AM5 platform; video card manufacturers have seriously increased gaming performance. If not now, then when to switch to DDR5? Source: 3dnews.ru
Qualcomm Technologies, Robert Bosch, Infineon Technologies, Nordic Semiconductor and NXP Semiconductors announced the formation of a joint venture Quintauris, the main task of which is to develop and promote solutions based on the RISC-V architecture. The new company will be headed by Alexander Kocher, who previously served as president and CEO of Elektrobit, a supplier of specialized software for the automotive industry. Image source: QualcommSource: […]
New BIOS versions for laptops on Intel Meteor Lake processors make them faster, writes the Hothardware portal with reference to Ultrabook Review. The source gives as an example the ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED laptop model based on Core Ultra 7 155H with six Redwood P-cores with a frequency of up to 4,8 GHz, eight Crestmont E-cores with a frequency of up to 3,8 GHz and […]
Micron Technology has settled a legal dispute with a key Chinese competitor, Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit, which it had previously accused of stealing intellectual property, Bloomberg writes, explaining this move by the American company’s desire to restore noticeably deteriorated relations with official Beijing. Image source: MicronSource: 3dnews.ru
Mozilla has updated its Common Voice datasets to include pronunciation samples from over 200 people. The data is published as public domain (CC0). The proposed sets can be used in machine learning systems to build speech recognition and synthesis models. Compared to the previous update, the volume of speech material in the collection increased from 28.7 to 30.3 thousand hours of speech, […]
The Fedora 40 release proposed merging the contents of the /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories, replacing the /usr/sbin directory with a symbolic link pointing to /usr/bin. Converting /bin and /sbin to symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin was done in 2012 in Fedora 17. By concentrating all executables in one place, reference to the /usr/sbin directory will be removed from the environment variable […]
Hello, devoted fans of Heroes of Might and Magic! The fheroes2 open source game engine has been updated to version 1.0.11 today and we would like to tell you about what changes have occurred since the last update. First of all, the changes affected the map editor, which the main forces of our team are currently working on. The editor has implemented the ability to place cities on the adventure map. Besides […]
After a year and a half of development, the Enlightenment 0.26 user environment was released, which is based on a set of EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Library) libraries and Elementary widgets. The release is available in source code; distribution packages have not yet been created. The desktop in Enlightenment is formed by such components as a file manager, a set of widgets, an application launcher and a set of graphical configurators. Enlightenment is very flexible […]
The Chinese company NIO had an event planned for the end of the year, during which it presented its flagship electric vehicle ET9, as well as a new generation of express battery replacement stations. The car received a processor and battery cells of its own design, as well as three lidars and an advanced active suspension. The new product will go on sale in the first quarter of 2025. Image source: NIO Source: 3dnews.ru
In the context of worsening sanctions, Chinese chip manufacturers are actively purchasing all lithography equipment available for purchase; November statistics clearly demonstrated this, since during the month 16 lithography systems from the Netherlands were imported into China for a total of $762,7 million, which is ten times more than the same months of the previous year in value terms. Image source: ASML Source: 3dnews.ru
Developers David Szymanski and Dillon Rogers have released The Mirror Realm Christmas update for their Victorian stealth shooter Gloomwood. All details of the update are revealed in a recent post on the game’s Steam page. Image source: New Blood InteractiveSource: 3dnews.ru
The fheroes2 1.0.11 project is now available, which recreates the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine from scratch. The project code is written in C++ and distributed under the GPLv2 license. To run the game, files with game resources are required, which can be obtained from the original game Heroes of Might and Magic II. Main changes: Added the ability to place locks in the editor […]
