Open-source News

The Massive AI Performance Benefit With AMX On Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids"

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 22:20
Besides the support for MRDIMM-8800 memory, another distinct advantage of Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors is the continued presence of Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the impact of AMX on the Intel Xeon 6980P processors for AI inference workloads.

Mesa's PowerVR Vulkan Driver Gets Rid Of Its Old Hardcoded Shader Code

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 21:10
Imagination's open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa now is able to generate its different internal shaders required by the driver to forego shipping old hard-coded shaders...

Intel Moves Pre-Arc Graphics To "Legacy" Driver On Windows - Linux Users Need Not Worry

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 20:28
Intel announced this week that its moving its graphics driver support for integrated graphics on 11th Gen through 14th Gen processors over to their legacy driver model on Microsoft Windows. While this is a setback for those using Raptor Lake processors on Windows as well as the few Xe DG1 discrete graphics out there, Linux users don't have much to worry about...

GCC 16 Will No Longer Treat Function Multi-Versioning As Experimental On ARM64

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 18:40
Function Multi-Versioning (FMV) is the compiler feature that allows developers to specify multiple versions of the same function that can be used for optimizing execution for specific target features. For example, FMV can allow optimized functions to be called if the CPU supports AVX, AVX-512, SSE4.2, or other differing ISA capabilities. With the GCC 16 compiler release, AArch64/ARM64 now considers its FMV support to be stable and complete...

FFmpeg Introduces MPEG-H 3D Audio Decoding Support

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 18:28
The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged support for MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding...

Sony DualSense Controller Audio Jack Handling Ready For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 18:18
In addition to the patches providing haptic touchpad support for Linux 6.18, another notable HID addition queued into the "hid-next" tree ahead of the imminent Linux 6.18 merge window is proper audio jack handling with the Sony PlayStation DualSense controller...

Pages