Computers
Intel has slowed down computers around the world
Intel Corporation experts discovered the vulnerability CVE-2022-40982, known as Downfall, and slowed down the computers of users around the world to fix it. The downfall affects Intel consumer and server processors from the Skylake family to Rocket Lake. Thus, most users of Intel chips found themselves in the face of a hypothetical threat, which is guaranteed not to affect only the owners of the latest models.
As a result, Intel engineers released an update that significantly slowed down the performance of the blue giant’s processors.
The reason for such conclusions was the research of specialists of the Phoronix publication, which covers the subject of the Linux OS and software for this environment. Employees of the resource test laboratory conducted tests and compared the performance of the chips. It turned out that the update could reduce the power of computers based on Intel processors by up to 39 percent.
So, during testing of the Xeon Platinum 8380 and Xeon Gold 6226R, performance fell by 6 percent, Cascade Lake – 33 percent, Core i7-1165G7 – from 11 to 39 percent in various tests.
The publication’s specialists concluded that users will have to choose – to refuse the update that eliminates the vulnerability or install it, but sacrifice security.
The fact that millions of computers with Intel processors were at risk due to a vulnerability was announced in early August by Google engineer Daniel Moghimi. According to Mogimi, using the vulnerability, hackers can steal passwords, private messages, encryption keys and other sensitive data.
Computers
The size of China’s computer industry has exceeded a third of a trillion dollars. Beijing has supplied more than 20 million servers to the market in six years
According to the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, over the past six years, Beijing has supplied the market with more than 20.91 million general purpose servers and 820 thousand servers based on artificial intelligence technologies.
The volume of China’s computer industry in 2022 amounted to more than $362.2 billion. This became known at the World Computer Conference 2023, which opened in Changsha, Hunan Province, Central China.
The conference is dedicated to the topic “Digitalization of the world to create a new era of change in the computer industry.” Its participants discuss issues such as digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence and smart society.
“The new generation of information and communication technology has changed the model of economic and social development,” said Zhao Zhiguo, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Computers
Apple beat everyone again. The A17 Pro SoC in the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max is manufactured using a 3 nm process technology and is capable of running modern computer games
Apple iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max smartphones are known to have received the A17 Pro SoC, and this is a very interesting platform that is currently unique on the market.
It’s worth starting with the fact that this is the first mobile single-chip system and, apparently, the first consumer chip in general, which is produced using the 3 nm process technology at TSCM facilities. Previously, information appeared on the Internet that Apple had purchased all orders for some time regarding this technical process.
The SoC configuration includes only six processor cores: two productive and four energy-efficient. There is also a 16-core NPU and a new six-core GPU. The last one is especially important here. Apple says this is the largest GPU redesign in iPhone history. Compared to the GPU in the Apple A16 Bionic, the new one is 20% faster. But at the same time, it supports hardware acceleration of ray tracing, and MetalFX Upscaling technology allows you to relieve the graphics core. And all of this together is enough to run full-fledged computer games on the new iPhone Pro: Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Death Stranding and Assassin’s Creed Mirage! Yes, we have yet to evaluate the quality of graphics, resolution, etc., but this takes mobile gaming to previously unprecedented heights.
The team of the popular WhatsApp messenger has announced good news for Apple computer users – a native application for macOS has become available.
The new and improved WhatsApp app, which was released earlier in 2023 for Windows, is now available for macOS users, according to the developers.
Group video and audio calls are available for the first time in the new WhatsApp app for macOS. Up to 8 people can participate in video calls, and up to 32 people in audio calls. Users can also view the call history and receive notifications of incoming calls even when the application is closed, share files by simply dragging them to the chat, and so on.
The new app is now available for download on WhatsApp.com and will be coming to the App Store soon.
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