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Intel Media Driver 2025Q1 Advertises Experimental Support For Panther Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 18:30
In addition to this week's updated Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime, Intel's software engineers also released their new quarterly version of the Intel Media Driver that provides Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support for integrated graphics hardware going back to Broadwell processors and through the next-gen Panther Lake processors...

LXQt 2.2 Desktop Released With Better Wayland Support

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 18:13
LXQt 2.2 was christened today as the newest stable update to this lightweight, open-source Qt desktop environment...

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.10.8 Brings More Improvements For Xe2 & Xe3

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 17:59
Released on Wednesday was IGC 2.10.8 as the newest update to the Intel Graphics Compiler that is used by their Compute Runtime OpenCL/Level-Zero stack on Windows and Linux as well as being used as their graphics shader compiler under their Windows driver...

KDE Gear 25.04 Delivers Many Improvements To KDE's Applications

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 17:49
Following the recent Plasma 6.3 desktop release, KDE Gear 25.04 is now available for shipping all of the latest and greatest KDE applications...

Intel Continues Exploring Energy Aware Scheduling For Hybrid CPUs Without SMT

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 08:48
While Intel's Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" SoCs with on-package memory has been reported to be a one-off design, besides the integrated memory it was also notable for being a hybrid core design while lacking Hyper Threading (HT / SMT) support. The notion of hybrid P/E core CPUs without SMT looks like it will continue with Intel software engineers still exploring Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) around such layouts...

TurnkeyML 6.2 Released With AMD Ryzen AI NPU Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 08:22
Released at the end of 2023 was TurnkeyML as an open-source collaboration between ONNX and AMD developers. TurnkeyML has evolved into focusing on making it easy to use the most important tools within the ONNX ecosystem and their Lemonade SDK to deploy large language models on various devices/accelerators Out today is TurnkeyML 6.2 with a focus on delivering better AMD Ryzen AI NPU support...

Fedora 43 Looking To Make It Easier To Deploy Intel TDX Confidential VMs

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 03:48
While Fedora 42 was just released yesterday, already Red Hat developers and the Fedora development community have been busy thinking about Fedora 43 that will debut this autumn. Among the early change proposals this week is one for better supporting Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) with this next Fedora Linux release...

Mesa's Old OpenCL "Clover" Driver Removed For Mesa 25.2

Phoronix - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 01:51
Now that Mesa 25.1 is branched for this quarter's Mesa 3D feature release, Mesa 25.2 has entered development on the main Git branch. One of the first merged changes for Mesa 25.2 is removing the old OpenCL Gallium3D "Clover" driver...

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