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AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 9000 Series

Phoronix - Wed, 10/08/2025 - 00:36
AMD today announced the Ryzen Embedded 9000 series for industrial computing and automation platforms...

The Many Memory Management Improvements In Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:45
The many memory management "MM" changes were recently merged into the Linux 6.18 kernel, consisting of a number of interesting patch series...

Qualcomm Acquires Arduino, Announces Arduino UNO Q Built On Dragonwing

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:00
Qualcomm announced today that they are acquiring Arduino, the popular open-source hardware/electronics prototyping platform for single-board micro-controllers...

Linear Address Space Separation Revised Following Prior Intel Engineer's Departure

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 21:01
Being worked on for the past roughly three years has been Linear Address Space Separation "LASS" for the Linux kernel as a security improvement in light of Spectre/Meltdown...

Realtek ECC Engine Driver Upstreamed For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 20:20
The Memory Technology Device "MTD" subsystem updates are merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

Intel QAT Zstd Plugin 1.0 Released With Optimizations, Zstd 1.5.7 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 18:38
Initially released two years ago was an Intel QuickAssist/QAT adaptation for Zstd compression. The v0.1 release happened just over two years ago followed by a v0.2 release one year later... Since then, it had been all quiet. Arriving today to surprise is the QAT Zstd 1.0 plug-in release...

New In 2025: Linux Patches Enable PCI Support For The Amiga 4000

Phoronix - Tue, 10/07/2025 - 18:26
For any Amiga 4000 hobbyists running a Linux m68k operating system, a PCI driver was finally published three decades later for Linux. Patches posted for mainline Linux kernel review today enable the Mediator 4000 PCI bridge available for the Amiga 4000 computer from the early 90's...

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