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Intel Continues Exploring Energy Aware Scheduling For Hybrid CPUs Without SMT

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 08:48
While Intel's Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" SoCs with on-package memory has been reported to be a one-off design, besides the integrated memory it was also notable for being a hybrid core design while lacking Hyper Threading (HT / SMT) support. The notion of hybrid P/E core CPUs without SMT looks like it will continue with Intel software engineers still exploring Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) around such layouts...

TurnkeyML 6.2 Released With AMD Ryzen AI NPU Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 08:22
Released at the end of 2023 was TurnkeyML as an open-source collaboration between ONNX and AMD developers. TurnkeyML has evolved into focusing on making it easy to use the most important tools within the ONNX ecosystem and their Lemonade SDK to deploy large language models on various devices/accelerators Out today is TurnkeyML 6.2 with a focus on delivering better AMD Ryzen AI NPU support...

Fedora 43 Looking To Make It Easier To Deploy Intel TDX Confidential VMs

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 03:48
While Fedora 42 was just released yesterday, already Red Hat developers and the Fedora development community have been busy thinking about Fedora 43 that will debut this autumn. Among the early change proposals this week is one for better supporting Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) with this next Fedora Linux release...

Mesa's Old OpenCL "Clover" Driver Removed For Mesa 25.2

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 01:51
Now that Mesa 25.1 is branched for this quarter's Mesa 3D feature release, Mesa 25.2 has entered development on the main Git branch. One of the first merged changes for Mesa 25.2 is removing the old OpenCL Gallium3D "Clover" driver...

Intel's Newest Linux Driver Being Worked On For The Kernel: iXD

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 00:56
Intel open-source software engineers last week posted a set of patches for a new driver: iXD. The three letter acronym party continues and this time even more difficult to decipher than some of their other obscure driver names...

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