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PCIe 8.0 v0.3 Specification Released To Members

Phoronix - Fri, 09/19/2025 - 08:27
As announced last month, PCI Express 8.0 is aiming for 256 GT/s speeds for allowing 1 TB/s bandwidth in an x16 configuration. In working towards the goals of PCIe 8.0, the PCI-SIG announced today that the v0.3 specification has been released to members...

Revisiting DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 Performance With Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids"

Phoronix - Thu, 09/18/2025 - 22:40
One of the exciting elements of Intel's Xeon 6 Granite Rapids launch last year was introducing support for MRDIMMs alongside DDR5-6400 memory support. After the Xeon 6900P series debut I posted some of the first independent DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 benchmarks. One year later, today is a fresh look at the DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 performance for Granite Rapids with new/updated benchmarks, the latest Linux software improvements, and also looking at the impact on power and thermals of MRDIMM memory.

Rust 1.90 Released With LLD Default On Linux x86_64 While macOS x86_64 Demoted

Phoronix - Thu, 09/18/2025 - 21:51
Rust 1.90 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language...

Python 3.14-rc3 Released Ahead Of Next Month's Official Release

Phoronix - Thu, 09/18/2025 - 21:25
Python 3.14-rc3 is out today as the final test preview ahead of next month's official Python 3.14 stable release...

NVIDIA To Make $5B Investment Into Intel - x86 RTX SoCs & More To Come

Phoronix - Thu, 09/18/2025 - 19:51
NVIDIA is making a $5 billion investment into Intel and the two companies will work together on custom data center and client CPUs...

Linux Mint Releases LMDE 7 Beta

Phoronix - Thu, 09/18/2025 - 18:42
Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, today marks the beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7...

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