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AMD CDX Being Prepared For Linux As The Bus Between Future APUs & FPGAs

Phoronix - Wed, 01/18/2023 - 00:14
After quietly posting a "request for comments" patch series a few months back to no fanfare, AMD today published their post-RFC patch series today for introducing the AMD CDX bus to the Linux kernel. AMD CDX is ultimately for the interface/bus between the APU and FPGA(s) with future hardware...

Apple Launches The M2 Pro & M2 Max + New Mac Mini With M2 / M2 Pro

Phoronix - Tue, 01/17/2023 - 23:43
Apple today announced their M2 Pro and M2 Max SoCs found in new Apple MacBook Pro devices and they have also updated their Mac Mini computers with the M2 and interestingly even offering a model with the M2 Pro SoC...

More AMD Zen 4 Compiler Tuning Work Lands In GCC 13

Phoronix - Tue, 01/17/2023 - 21:00
SUSE compiler engineer Jan Hubicka has landed some additional AMD Zen 4 "znver4" CPU target tuning ahead of the upcoming GCC 13 stable compiler release...

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