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Habana Labs Driver Drops Default Memory Scrubbing For Better Performance, Other Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 12:00
Intel-owned Habana Labs has submitted their set of driver updates to char/misc ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.14 merge window...

Intel Lands More Open-Source Vulkan Driver Changes For Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 07:00
Even though Vulkan ray-tracing support on Intel graphics hardware isn't coming until Xe HPG avaiability, Intel's Linux graphics driver developers have been preparing since last year. In preparation for the Xe HPG launch, Intel's open-source talent have for many months already been preparing the Vulkan ray-tracing functionality wither another batch of code being merged today...

Intel Announces New Leadership Roles, Business Unit Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 04:13
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger continues working on restructuring the company and today announced some new leadership as well as business unit changes...

Intel's Latest CPU Microcode Update Isn't All That Scary

Phoronix - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 01:44
While in the past we have seen Intel CPU microcode updates lead to measurable performance differences on multiple occasions, this month's CPU microcode update doesn't end up being all that concerning for real-world performance...

PanVK Merged Into Mesa 21.2 For Open-Source Vulkan Driver With Arm Mali GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 01:13
Hitting mainline Mesa today for Mesa 21.2 next quarter is PanVK as the open-source Vulkan driver in development for newer Arm Mali GPUs...

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