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Intel Nova Lake Audio Support Merged For Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 18:57
The sound subsystem updates were merged on Thursday for enabling a variety of new audio hardware with the Linux 6.19. Among the hardware standing out is getting Intel Nova Lake audio support in order...

Linux 6.19 GPU Driver Features: Color Pipeline API, Intel Xe3P, AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 09:23
The big set of kernel graphics driver features were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel. As usual there is a lot of new feature work on the AMD Radeon, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers plus the smaller Arm/embedded graphics like now having initial Qualcomm Gen8 GPU support. Plus the growing number of accelerator "accel" drivers for NPUs / AI accelerators...

Graviton5 Announced With Up To 192 Cores Per Chip, 5x Larger Cache

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 07:44
Amazon AWS today announced Graviton5 as their newest-generation ARM64 server processor for their EC2 cloud. Graviton5 is being promoted as offering 25% higher performance over existing Graviton4 processors...

NVIDIA Releases CUDA 13.1 With New "CUDA Tile" Programming Model

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 06:44
NVIDIA just released CUDA 13.1 for what they claim is "the largest and most comprehensive update to the CUDA platform since it was invented two decades ago." The most notable addition with the CUDA 13.1 release is CUDA Tile as a new tile-based programming model...

Linux 6.19 Brings Temperature Monitoring For The Steam Deck APU, Apple Silicon SMC

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 05:33
The many hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem updates were merged today for Linux 6.19 that is predominantly around delivering new hardware support...

Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years

Phoronix - Fri, 12/05/2025 - 02:48
The out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system is ready with its reconcile feature, which previously was known as "rebalance_v2", and what lead developer Kent Overstreet calls the biggest feature to this copy-on-write file-system in the last two years...

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