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      Linux 6.6 Bringing Qt6 Port To "make xconfig" Interface

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 September, 2023

    Masahiro Yamada submitted today all of the Kconfig feature updates targeting the Linux 6.6 merge window. Most notable with the Kconfig work is the "make xconfig" GUI seeing a port for Qt6 toolkit compatibility...
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      Mesa 23.2-rc3 Released After Five Week Hiatus

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 September, 2023

    Mesa 23.2 was supposed to have been released by now following a series of weekly release candidates that started in mid-July when feature work ended. After a five week hiatus, Mesa 23.2-rc3 is now available for testing...
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      AMD Open Hardware Competition Winners Announced For 2023

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 September, 2023

    AMD by way of their Xilinx acquisition has been running the Open Hardware Competition since 2015 for helping to drive new innovations around FPGAs and the ACAP compute platform. The winners of the AMD Open Hardware Competition 2023 were recently announced...
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      AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Make For Compelling Budget Servers, Leading Performance & Value Over Xeon E

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 September, 2023

    While this summer has been a busy season of benchmarking with the new AMD EPYC Bergamo processors providing up to 128-cores / 256-threads per socket and the new EPYC Genoa-X parts providing up to 1.1GB of L3 cache with 3D V-Cache to provide for excellent HPC performance, not everyone needs such levels of performance nor having the budget for such platforms. It's always fun talking about the high-end server platforms, but at the opposite end AMD and their platform partners have been rolling out an equally interesting assortment of AMD Ryzen 7000 series based server products. With the Ryzen 9 7950X/7950X3D providing up to 16-cores / 32-threads, a growing number of Ryzen server motherboards supporting DDR5 ECC UDIMM, and a number of innovative Ryzen server platforms coming to market, it's an interesting time to be after a budget-friendly server platform or other robust rackmount systems where looking for power efficient 16 cores or less configurations.
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      PoCL-Remote Allows OpenCL To Be Transparently Used Acrossed Networked Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 September, 2023

    PoCL began as an open-source project providing a CPU-based OpenCL implementation and over the years has added support for various LLVM back-ends such as for targeting AMD HSA, Intel Level Zero, and NVIDIA CUDA/PTX with its OpenCL implementation. The latest back-end merged ahead of Portable Computing Language 5.0 is a remote back-end that allows for OpenCL codes to be transparently utilized on networked systems for distributed computing...
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      Intel & Tower Semiconductor Reach Foundry Agreement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 September, 2023

    Following Intel's acquisition of Tower Semiconductor falling through due to failing to obtain all the necessary regulatory approvals, Intel and Tower today announced a foundry agreement...
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      Linux 6.6 Adds New Sound Support For AMD Van Gogh, Valve Galileo

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 September, 2023

    The sound subsystem and audio driver updates were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window. Interesting about the sound work this cycle is a fair amount of work around AMD Van Gogh platforms, which so far is just the APU that's known to power Valve's Steam Deck...
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      Hangover 8.15 Released With Box64 Integration As PE Library

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 September, 2023

    Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.15 is a new version of Hangover, the Wine-based software that aims to ease the deployment of Wine with x86/x86_64 Windows software support atop AArch64 processors and other CPU architectures...
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      Some AMD CPUs To Benefit From New Micro-Optimization In Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 September, 2023

    One of the patches to be picked up by the Linux 6.6 kernel this week brings back REP MOSQ for user-access on CPUs without Enhanced REP MOVSB (ERMS) support. In turn this can equate to some performance benefits on AMD CPUs lacking ERMS...