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GRVK Allows AMD's Deprecated Mantle API To Run Atop Vulkan

Phoronix - Wed, 08/19/2020 - 06:18
There are just a handful of games like Battlefield 4, Thief, and others that can make use of AMD's long-deprecated Mantle graphics API as the predecessor to modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and Direct3D 12. Mantle never was brought to Linux given the emphasis quickly turned to Vulkan within The Khronos Group, but now with the open-source "GRVK" project it's being mapped on top of Vulkan...

Rust Core Team + Mozilla To Create A Rust Foundation

Phoronix - Wed, 08/19/2020 - 00:27
Given the uncertainty created by Mozilla laying off roughly a quarter of their staff last week that did include some Rust developers and in looking to further along the Rust ecosystem in its own right, the Rust core developers in cooperation with Mozilla are working to form the Rust Foundation...

Alibaba Reports Their XT910 RISC-V Core To Be Faster Than An Arm Cortex-A73

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 23:48
A few weeks back Alibaba announced the "XT910" as the fastest RISC-V processor featuring 16 cores and clock speeds up to 2.5GHz while being manufactured on a 12nm node. This by far beats most RISC-V hardware currently available and now at this week's Hot Chips conference the Chinese company is reporting that the XT910 is faster than an Arm Cortex-A73...

TensorFlow Lite Now Supports Tapping OpenCL For Much Faster GPU Inference

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 23:21
TensorFlow Lite for AI inference on mobile devices now has support for making use of OpenCL on Android devices. In doing so, the TFLite performance presents around a 2x speed-up over the existing OpenGL back-end...

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