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NVIDIA Sends Out 1GB THP Support For Linux x86_64

Phoronix - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 03:14
NVIDIA software engineer Zi Yan who specializes in the Linux kernel memory management subsystem today sent out a set of patches proposing the addition of 1GB THP support for the Linux kernel...

Intel 11th Gen Core "Tiger Lake" Launches

Phoronix - Thu, 09/03/2020 - 00:51
Intel Tiger Lake will soon begin appearing in laptops with an upgraded CPU architecture, the all new Iris Xe (Gen12) graphics, new AI capabilities, Thunderbolt 4, PCI Express 4.0, WiFi 6, and other new functionality. The Gen12 graphics have me most excited but there should be healthy improvements as well on the CPU side and not to mention improved connectivity.

LLVM Developers Looking At Phasing Out Intel MMX Support

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 22:23
Upstream developers are looking at phasing out Intel MMX that was popular in the late 90's but has since long been succeeded by SSE and AVX instruction set extensions...

SHADERed 1.4 Brings Shader Writing/Debugging To The Browser

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 21:57
SHADERed has been available for a while now as a cross-platform, open-source shader editor and for debugging and writing of graphics shaders. SHADERed not only runs on Linux and Windows now but through any modern web browser as of the new v1.4 release...

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