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Vulkan 1.3.270 Released With New Imagination Extension To Help OpenGL Emulation

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 21:47
Vulkan 1.3.270 is out this morning as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API. In addition to the usual assortment of minor fixes/clarifications, there is one new extension this time around...

AOMedia Announces Royalty-Free IAMF Audio Container Specification

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 21:15
Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) is known for their work on the AV1 video codec and AVIF image file format while now they have released their first royalty-free audio specification...

Intel Posts Latest AVX10.1-256 & AVX10.1-512 Compiler Patches For GCC

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 19:58
Since announcing AVX10 earlier this year, Intel compiler engineers have been quite busy preparing the open-source compiler toolchains like GCC and LLVM/Clang for this next iteration of Advanced Vector Extensions. On Thursday night the latest AVX10.1 work was posted for the GNU Compiler Collection ahead of its upcoming feature freeze...

Linux 6.7 Overhauls x86 CPU Microcode Loading

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 19:42
Recently there has been a fair amount of work done to clean-up the Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode loading on Linux that has now been merged for Linux 6.7...

FreeBSD Adding More AMD64 SIMD, Continues Improving Linux Compatibility Layer

Phoronix - Fri, 11/10/2023 - 19:19
FreeBSD developers have been busy preparing for the release of FreeBSD 14 as well as making a variety of enhancements to this leading BSD operating system...

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