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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Finally Adds External Memory Host Support

Phoronix - Wed, 06/24/2020 - 01:50
NVIDIA today released a new Vulkan beta driver for Linux systems at version 440.66.17...

Ampere Announces Altra Max 128-Core Server Processor

Phoronix - Tue, 06/23/2020 - 21:00
Back in March Ampere Computing detailed their next-gen Altra ARM-based server CPU with up to 80 cores per socket. Today the company is revealing more roadmap details including the forthcoming Altra Max that offers 128 cores per socket.

Dell To Begin Shipping Ubuntu 20.04 LTS On Their Latest XPS Developer Edition

Phoronix - Tue, 06/23/2020 - 20:06
Dell is announcing this morning that their latest XPS Developer Edition laptops are beginning to ship with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as the latest version of the popular desktop Linux distribution...

Open-Source Qualcomm "TURNIP" Vulkan Driver Adds Tessellation Shader Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/23/2020 - 19:12
Mesa's TURNIP Vulkan driver for open-source Qualcomm Adreno support took another big step forward this week with the mainlining of tessellation shader support...

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