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Graviton5 Announced With Up To 192 Cores Per Chip, 5x Larger Cache

Phoronix - 1 hour 48 min ago
Amazon AWS today announced Graviton5 as their newest-generation ARM64 server processor for their EC2 cloud. Graviton5 is being promoted as offering 25% higher performance over existing Graviton4 processors...

NVIDIA Releases CUDA 13.1 With New "CUDA Tile" Programming Model

Phoronix - 2 hours 48 min ago
NVIDIA just released CUDA 13.1 for what they claim is "the largest and most comprehensive update to the CUDA platform since it was invented two decades ago." The most notable addition with the CUDA 13.1 release is CUDA Tile as a new tile-based programming model...

Linux 6.19 Brings Temperature Monitoring For The Steam Deck APU, Apple Silicon SMC

Phoronix - 3 hours 59 min ago
The many hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem updates were merged today for Linux 6.19 that is predominantly around delivering new hardware support...

Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years

Phoronix - 6 hours 45 min ago
The out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system is ready with its reconcile feature, which previously was known as "rebalance_v2", and what lead developer Kent Overstreet calls the biggest feature to this copy-on-write file-system in the last two years...

FreeBSD 15.0 Benchmarks Versus FreeBSD 14.3 On AMD EPYC

Phoronix - 8 hours 13 min ago
This week brought the official release of FreeBSD 15.0 as the latest major update to this BSD operating system. In being eager to test out this new FreeBSD release, for this first round of FreeBSD 15.0 benchmarking is seeing how it compares to the former FreeBSD 14.3 release on a Supermicro + AMD EPYC Turin server.

Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port

Phoronix - 9 hours 4 min ago
Developers behind Redox OS, the original open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language, have ported Wayland to it with initially getting the Smallvil Wayland compositor up and running along with the Smithay framework and the Wayland version of the GTK toolkit...

Former Intel Open-Source Project SVT-VP9 Sees First Update In 5 Years

Phoronix - 9 hours 29 min ago
The open-source SVT-VP9 project started by Intel as a high performance VP9 video encoder has seen its first new release in five years...

Printk Improvement For Linux 6.19 Can Significantly Speed-Up Boot Times For Some Systems

Phoronix - Thu, 12/04/2025 - 23:50
The Linux kernel's printk code for logging kernel messages has some useful improvements with the Linux 6.19 kernel...

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