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Pat Gelsinger Is Going Back To Intel As New CEO

Phoronix - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 22:54
While Bob Swan has been the interim and then permanent CEO for less than three years at Intel, following much speculation heating up in recent weeks, Bob Swan is out and returning to Intel is Pat Gelsinger who will now lead as CEO...

Qualcomm To Acquire High Performance ARM SoC Startup NUVIA

Phoronix - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 22:43
NUVIA, the startup focused on making new high performance ARM CPUs for the data center that has talked up big performance capabilities and big performance-per-Watt advantages, is being acquired by Qualcomm...

Vulkan SDK Now Formally Available For Apple Platforms - Including Apple Silicon Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 22:17
The Khronos Group and LunarG have announced an updated Vulkan SDK that includes now formally providing support for Apple platforms, including Apple Silicon systems via Universal Binaries...

Intel Sends In Another Batch Of Graphics Work For Linux 5.12 - More Display Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 21:58
At the start of the month Intel sent out their initial graphics driver changes targeting Linux 5.12 while now a secondary set of changes have been sent to DRM-Next...

Ubuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable

Phoronix - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 21:01
Ubuntu 21.04 will do away with the existing practice on Ubuntu Linux systems of making new user home directories world-readable...

AMDGPU Working On "Secure Display" Functionality

Phoronix - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 20:45
The AMD Radeon "AMDGPU" open-source Linux kernel driver is tacking on another new feature: Secure Display TA...

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