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Rust Core Team + Mozilla To Create A Rust Foundation

Phoronix - Wed, 08/19/2020 - 00:27
Given the uncertainty created by Mozilla laying off roughly a quarter of their staff last week that did include some Rust developers and in looking to further along the Rust ecosystem in its own right, the Rust core developers in cooperation with Mozilla are working to form the Rust Foundation...

Alibaba Reports Their XT910 RISC-V Core To Be Faster Than An Arm Cortex-A73

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 23:48
A few weeks back Alibaba announced the "XT910" as the fastest RISC-V processor featuring 16 cores and clock speeds up to 2.5GHz while being manufactured on a 12nm node. This by far beats most RISC-V hardware currently available and now at this week's Hot Chips conference the Chinese company is reporting that the XT910 is faster than an Arm Cortex-A73...

TensorFlow Lite Now Supports Tapping OpenCL For Much Faster GPU Inference

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 23:21
TensorFlow Lite for AI inference on mobile devices now has support for making use of OpenCL on Android devices. In doing so, the TFLite performance presents around a 2x speed-up over the existing OpenGL back-end...

Debian's Qt Maintainers Stepping Down Ahead Of Qt 6.0

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 22:55
Ahead of the big Qt 6.0 release expected before the end of the year, Debian's current Qt package maintainers have decided to step down...

NVIDIA 450.66 Linux Driver Released With Expanded EIZO, Matrox Support

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 21:42
NVIDIA today released 450.66 as their latest stable Linux graphics driver update...

Microsoft Doubles Their Commits To Mesa This Week

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 19:19
More than a dozen patches were merged by a Microsoft engineer into Mesa yesterday...

30-bit Deep Color For GNOME On Wayland Will Likely Take Some Time

Phoronix - Tue, 08/18/2020 - 19:04
As written about at the start of the month, well known GNOME contributor Daniel van Vugt of Canonical/Ubuntu has added tackling deep color support to his TODO list for being able to properly handle 30-bit color on the desktop...

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