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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" On Linux?

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 19:22
Yesterday a number of Windows reviews began appearing for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 "Strix Halo" with the debut of the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 as the first laptop to ship this SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads, 64 MB L3 cache, and 40 graphics cores with the Radeon 8060S Graphics. As expected, AMD Strix Halo is a beast with its very capable CPU performance and very compelling integrated graphics, at least under Windows 11...

Intel oneDNN 3.7 Begins Tuning For Xe3 Graphics, Adds More Granite Rapids Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 19:11
Intel software engineers on Tuesday released oneDNN 3.7 as the newest version of this oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library that is in turn used by software like ONNX, MATLAB, PaddlePaddle, Apache MXNet, and others as part of the building blocks for deep learning software...

Sovereign Tech Agency Investing €515k Into The Eclipse Foundation

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 18:57
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (née Sovereign Tech Fund) announced they have begun investing into the Eclipse Foundation and the work they are doing on open-source integrated development environment (IDE) software...

How to Run Android Apps on Ubuntu with Genymotion Android Emulator

Tecmint - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 17:40
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Genymotion is a powerful Android emulator used by developers and testers to simulate Android devices on their computers. It allows

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Latest AVX-512 Optimization For FFmpeg Shows Wild Improvement On AMD Ryzen

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 09:28
Merged today for the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was yet another AVX-512 optimized code path... Compared to the pure C code, the AVX2 code path was 10.98x faster while this new AVX-512 code path clocks in at 18x the performance of the common C code...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080/5090 Performance With Neat Video 6 On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 04:17
Last week NeatLab released Neat Video 6 as the newest version of their video engine to reduce noise and enhance video quality that can be used with the likes of DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, and Premiere Pro software. Neat Video 6 features a faster render engine, optimized CPU + GPU performance, enhanced memory management, and other improvements. Neat Video 6 continues to support Linux natively when it comes to DaVinci Resolve usage as well as various OFX hosts like Natron / Flame / Mistika / Fusion Studio / Nuke. As they also updated their NeatBench benchmark, I was curious to see how the performance of Neat Video 6 is for the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs.

Linus Torvalds Would Reportedly Merge Rust Kernel Code Over Maintainer Objections

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 03:53
The drama surrounding Rust code within the Linux kernel continues... Christoph Hellwig is the maintainer of the DMA mapping helpers and several other areas of the kernel has been an outspoken critic of Rust code or secondary programming languages within the Linux kernel kernel. Hellwig has been critical of Rust code for the Linux kernel and its long-term maintainability. Today he's out with another mailing list post where he notes that Linus Torvalds mentioned in private he would override maintainer vetoes on Rust code within the kernel...

Wasmer 6.0 Wires Up Support For Multiple Heterogeneous Backends

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 03:05
For those interested in WebAssembly for the "run anywhere" prospects and container-like secure execution, Wasmer remains one of the leading WASM runtime options. Wasmer 6.0 Alpha 1 is out today as the latest to further along this quest...

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