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Libre/Open-Source POWER10 Hardware Systems Unlikely Until At Least 2022

Phoronix - Mon, 08/17/2020 - 23:08
While Raptor Computing Systems has been making fabulous 100% open-source/libre hardware systems based around POWER9 with the likes of their Talos II and Blackbird systems, don't hold your breath on quickly seeing fully-open POWER10 systems even with "OpenPOWER" being trumpeted in recent years and similar for being more open-source friendly than the likes of Intel and AMD...

SiFive Launches OpenFive As Custom Silicon Business Unit For RISC-V, ARM, Other ISAs

Phoronix - Mon, 08/17/2020 - 22:26
SiFive today announced OpenFive as their custom silicon business now spun into its own self-contained, autonomous unit...

VALLIUM Merged Into Mesa 20.3 As Vulkan Front-End To Gallium3D

Phoronix - Mon, 08/17/2020 - 19:06
Red Hat's David Airlie has been on quite a spree lately with open-source graphics driver improvements from OpenGL 4 for LLVMpipe to now merging "VALLIUM" for a Vulkan software implementation...

Kdenlive 20.08 Released For Improving This Leading Open-Source Video Editor

Phoronix - Mon, 08/17/2020 - 18:52
Version 20.08 of Kdenlive has been released, the KDE-aligned open-source non-linear video editor platform that is among the best in the field for open-source, community-driven projects...

IBM Details 7nm POWER10 CPUs But Not Shipping Until H2'2021

Phoronix - Mon, 08/17/2020 - 18:42
After covering the Linux/open-source POWER10 bring-up for a number of months already, IBM has finally announced firm information on their forthcoming POWER10 processors. POWER10 looks promising but these 7nm CPUs will not begin shipping until the second half of next year...

Wine Patches Revived For 64-bit POWER Support, Hangover To Run Windows Apps On POWER

Phoronix - Mon, 08/17/2020 - 16:02
Going back many months have been work on making Wine work nicely on 64-bit POWER (POWER9) for ultimately being able to handle Windows programs on IBM POWER/OpenPOWER hardware. The latest Wine work has now been sent out for benefiting this CPU architecture popular with free software purists...

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