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Pushing The Intel Panther Lake CPU Performance Further On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 02/06/2026 - 22:31
Earlier this week I published the first Linux benchmarks of Intel's much anticipated Panther Lake with the Core Ultra X7 358H 16-core 18A processor. The Panther Lake SoC showed very nice generational gains especially with much better performance-per-Watt and the Intel Arc B390 graphics are also fascinatingly fast while continuing to be backed by open-source drivers. In today's article are more Panther Lake Linux benchmarks on the CPU side in looking at the performance potential when pushing the Core Ultra X7 358H with a higher power budget.

AMD Introduces New GPU Target To AMDGPU LLVM: GFX1170 "RDNA 4m"

Phoronix - Fri, 02/06/2026 - 21:57
In addition to their ongoing AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end work for upcoming GFX1250 and recently the GFX13 target for their graphics IP, today AMD compiler engineers introduced a new "GFX1170" target to the LLVM codebase that is also called RDNA 4m...

New Linux Patches Allow Preserving Apple Mac Backlight Brightness Across Reboots

Phoronix - Fri, 02/06/2026 - 21:23
A nice, overdue usability improvement is on the way for those using Apple Macs under Linux. Finally there will be the ability to preserve the same backlight brightness across reboots under Linux...

"DHEI" Proposed For Linux To Help Cloud-Native Orchestrators & High Frequency Traders

Phoronix - Fri, 02/06/2026 - 19:29
Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments to kernel behavior around CPU isolation for helping with latency-sensitive tasks. The expressed goal is for helping cloud-native orchestrators and high frequency trading platforms dynamically re-partition CPU resources without downtime...

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