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LLVM Clang 14 Begins Landing Intel AVX-512 FP16 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 02:33
Last month Intel began posting the developer documentation around AVX-512 FP16 support coming with Sapphire Rapids and initially accompanied by GCC compiler patches along with LLVM/Clang. While that GNU Compiler Collection support around AVX-512 FP16 has yet to be merged, the LLVM Clang support for this next iteration of AVX-512 has begun landing...

Tesseract 5.0 OCR Engine Bringing Faster Performance With "Fast Floats"

Phoronix - Tue, 08/17/2021 - 01:58
Tesseract as the leading open-source optical character recognition (OCR) engine that employs neural networks for converting images/scans of text into actual recognized text is nearing its 5.0 release...

Intel's New Brand For High Performance Discrete Graphics: Arc

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 21:23
Intel just announced the new brand they will use for their forthcoming high performance discrete graphics solutions...

Fedora 35 To Support Restarting User Services On Package Upgrades

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 21:00
While Fedora currently allows restarting of system services automatically when upgrading the packages for those services, there hasn't been that capability for user services to automatically restart as part of RPM package upgrades. But now approved for Fedora 35 is that change...

Mediatek MT8167 DRM Driver Support Coming For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 19:55
The Mediatek Direct Rendering Manager driver updates slated for Linux 5.15 were sent out this weekend...

Slackware 15.0 Coming Soon With RC1 Released

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 18:26
Not only did Debian 11 make it out this weekend, but Slackware 15 is finally up to its release candidate phase as the next major installment of this long-running Linux distribution...

Maui 2 Released For Open-Source UI Framework

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 18:18
The Maui open-source user interface framework and Maui Apps are out with a new release for those interested in this framework and applications that are designed to work well cross-device as well as largely working cross-platform too...

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