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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...

RADV Lands "Big Page" Optimization For Navi 2

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 19:03
It's not clear if AMD has provided the independent RADV Vulkan driver developers at the likes of Valve, Red Hat, and Google with any Navi 2 hardware yet, but they do seem to be making progress on this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver separate from their official AMDVLK open-source driver...

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