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RISC-V CPU Performance Up 8x In Five Years: SiFive HiFive Unmatched To SpacemiT K3

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 22:12
Recently I published some initial SpacemiT K3 benchmarks for that first-to-market RISC-V RVA23 SoC with the K3 Pico-ITX mini computer. In there was a comparison against modern Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen desktop CPUs along with the likes of the Raspberry Pi 5, Loongson 3B6000, and SiFive HiFive Premier. For those curious about the longer-term RISC-V performance, here is a look at how far the RISC-V hardware performance has come compared to the SiFive HiFive Unmatched RISC-V board from five years ago.

Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe Linux Alternative OS

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 20:43
In addition to Redox OS continuing to evolve quite nicely for that from-scratch, Rust-based open-source OS, Asterinas OS is also continuing to move forward for that Rust-based operating system striving for Linux compatibility...

LLVM/Clang Lands Initial Compiler Targeting For Hygon x86 CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 20:23
Following the recent Hygon C86-4G CPU support added to the GCC 17 compiler, the open-source LLVM Clang compiler has similarly seen Hygon c86-4g-m4 / c86-4g-m6 / c86-4g-m7 CPU support merged...

Linux 7.2 Preparing Intel Key Protection Technology "KPT" For Next-Gen QAT

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 18:37
Going back to the launch of 1st Gen Xeon Scalable processors in 2017 was Intel Key Protection Technology (KPT) promoted and there have been Key Protection Technology references in QuickAssist (QAT) documentation since 2016. Surprisingly we are only now seeing Key Protection Technology references for the upstream Linux QAT driver as Intel engineers prepare for their next-gen "Gen6" QuickAssist hardware support...

Lightweight Pragtical Code Editor Adds SDL GPU Backend

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 18:14
Pragtical, the lightweight open-source code editor that prides itself on using just ~50MB of RAM and ~10MB of disk space while being a full-featured code editor, is tacking on more features. Most notable with the new Pragtical release is adding an SDL-based GPU back-end for this MIT-licensed editor...

Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 18:02
The open-source developers at Georgia Tech working on Vortex as an OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation are out with their next major release for this open-source GPU design...

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