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Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8: A High-End, Intel + NVIDIA Mobile Workstation Great For Linux Use

Phoronix - 3 hours 16 min ago
For those shopping for an AI-ready mobile workstation with NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics, the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 offers a lot of potential for developers, AI researchers, content creators, and others. This Linux-friendly mobile workstation is well built and aligns with ThinkPad P-Series expectations while being ready to be tasked with demanding workloads.

Linux 7.0 To Expand Temperature Reporting For Intel Graphics Cards

Phoronix - 4 hours 53 min ago
The upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle will provide expanded GPU temperature reporting capabilities for Intel graphics cards. Additional temperature sensors will now be exposed under Linux with the Intel Xe driver using the hardware monitoring (HWMON) interface for easy consumption by different Linux user-space software...

Burn 0.20 Released: Rust-Based Deep Learning With Speedy Perf Across CPUs & GPUs

Phoronix - 5 hours 21 min ago
A significant update to Burn was released today, the MIT and Apache 2.0 licensed tensor library and deep learning framework written in the Rust programming language. Burn 0.20 brings some low-level changes as it continues to strive to deliver high performance AI across the diverse hardware ecosystem...

Imagination Driver To Support The TI AM62P SoC In Linux 6.20~7.0

Phoronix - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 22:27
Sent out today was the latest DRM-Misc-Next pull request of new material ahead of the next kernel cycle either Linux 6.20 or 7.0 depending upon what Linus Torvalds decides to call it...

Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 Delivers A "12x Performance Boost" With Integrated Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 21:19
Whisper.cpp as the open-source high performance inference project built around OpenAI's Whisper and from the same developers as Llama.cpp / GGML is out with a big new release. Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 is capable of delivering a 12x performance boost for systems with integrated AMD and Intel graphics...

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