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One of the most exciting features of Intel's 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors is the introduction of Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). The Intel AMX ISA extensions are intended for speeding-up AI and machine learning related workloads. In this article is a look at the AMX performance on the Xeon Platinum 8490H processors on/off for machine learning performance.

Advanced Matrix Extensions [AMX] Performance With Intel Xeon ...  Phoronix

Veira Group introduces Linux-based Coolita 2.0 solutions for the ...  The Northlines

How to keep Snap packages up to date and take control of when ...  TechRepublic

How to keep Snap packages up to date and take control of when you run the refresh command  TechRepublic

Discover Your CPU's True Limits With Stress-Terminal UI for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

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Tabletop Club is a free and open source physics-based 3D tabletop ...  GamingOnLinux

Breachway is a deck-building Slay the Spire meets FTL: Faster Than ...  GamingOnLinux

Stop an alien substance spreading in the Regulator City demo  GamingOnLinux

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State of the industry: MSI offered a chance to win the ability to buy a ...  GamingOnLinux

Skul: The Hero Slayer adds a whole new Dark Mirror mode for a ...  GamingOnLinux

Valve suffers a huge leak from various games like Portal, Half-Life 2 ...  GamingOnLinux

Intel last week introduced the 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors and kicking off this week is an exciting new development: patches are pending for upstreaming Sapphire Rapids processor support into the open-source Coreboot!..

Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel is the repository where their latest FFmpeg GPU acceleration patches are housed until being upstreamed into FFmpeg proper. Out today is FFmpeg 2022Q4 as the latest collection of Intel's patches for this open-source multimedia library from new hardware support to enhancing AV1 and HEVC/H.265 accelerated video encoding...

GCC 13 Progresses To Stage 4 "Regression Fixes Only" Development  Phoronix

The GCC 13 code compiler has entered its stage four of development today where the focus now is only on regression fixes until eliminating all the highest priority regressions so that the GCC 13.1 stable release can then happen in the next 2~3 months...

How to use the Shared Folders feature in VirtualBox 7  TechRepublic

Following last week's release of Chrome 109 by Google, Mozilla has uploaded their release binaries today for Firefox 109. Firefox 109 is the web browser's first release of 2023 and has caught up to Google's Chrome with its versioning...