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NVIDIA Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering The Best Performance Ever Seen On ARM

Phoronix - Tue, 05/26/2026 - 22:00
NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads. NVIDIA's Vera CPU with its in-house-designed Olympus CPU cores ends up packing a heavy-hitting punch with competitiveness to Intel/AMD x86_64 CPUs that I have never seen out of any other ARM or non-x86_64 processors. Continue on with these early benchmarks of the NVIDIA Vera CPU on Linux.

AlmaLinux 10.2 Released For Latest Community-Driven RHEL 10.2 Experience

Phoronix - Tue, 05/26/2026 - 21:58
The AlmaLinux project announced the releases today of both AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and AlmaLinux OS 10.2...

Pavona Aims To Provide A Certification-Ready, Open-Source Silicon Ecosystem

Phoronix - Tue, 05/26/2026 - 21:51
GlobalPlatform announced today the launch of Pavona as an open-source silicon ecosystem backed by founding members such as Meta, Qualcomm, Tenstorrent, Winbond, and the University of Oxford, among others...

NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API

Phoronix - Tue, 05/26/2026 - 21:39
NVIDIA is kicking off the new week with their first Linux driver beta in the R610 driver series that is succeeding the current R595 release branch...

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