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Google Releases AOM-AV1 v3.3 Video Encoder Update With Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 13:00
Google in cooperation with AOMedia this week released the AOM-AV1 v3.3 encoder for this royalty-free video codec...

Intel's 2022 Investor Meeting Talks Up Sierra Forst, Falcon Shores & More

Phoronix - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 08:28
In addition to the road-map update for Arc Graphics and Sapphire Rapids along with announcing Falcon Shores as a server CPU/APU/XPU pulling in Xe Graphics, Intel's 2022 Investor Meeting also made other updates and some new disclosures...

Clutter Is Being Officially Retired

Phoronix - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 04:15
The Clutter toolkit -- as the OpenGL-based graphics library for rendering UIs that dates back more than one decade to OpenedHand that was then acquired by Intel and notably used during the Moblin/MeeGo era -- is finally being officially retired...

Resizable BAR Support Being Prepared For Coreboot

Phoronix - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 03:43
Thanks to Google engineers there is Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support being worked on for the open-source Coreboot...

Intel Updates Roadmap For Arc Graphics, Sapphire Rapids, Falcon Shores

Phoronix - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 00:38
As part of Intel's Investor Meeting today, the company provided an updated technical roadmap with some interesting bits of information...

Benchmarking Amazon EC2's New C6a Instances Powered By 3rd Gen EPYC

Phoronix - Thu, 02/17/2022 - 22:28
Last year Amazon launched the EC2 M6a instances powered by AMD EPYC 7003 series while this week they have expanded their range of AMD Zen 3 offerings by launching the EC2 C6a series. The EC2 C6a instances are designed for compute-intensive workloads (hence the "C" series) and AWS is promoting it as offering up to 15% improvement in price-performance over prior-generation C5a instances and up to 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. I've run some benchmarks of the new EC2 C6a instances looking at how they perform over the prior 2nd Gen EPYC C5a based instances, against the Intel Ice Lake competition over in the M6i stack, and also how the C6a competes with Amazon's own Graviton2-based C6g type.

Intel OSPray Studio 0.10 Open-Source, Interactive Visualization Software Updated

Phoronix - Thu, 02/17/2022 - 19:00
Intel has released a new version of their open-source, interactive visualization software OSPray Studio that is built atop their OSPray ray-tracing rendering engine...

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