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Open 3D Engine O3DE 25.10 Brings Build Improvements, Vulkan & Linux Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 01:30
It's been four years now since the Open 3D Engine was born out of Amazon's Lumberyard project and hosted by the Linux Foundation. Today marks the release of the Open 3D Engine "O3DE" 25.10 release with the newest features and fixes for this cross-platform game/graphics engine...

Intel ISH Firmware Upstreamed Ahead Of Intel Panther Lake Laptops

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 01:03
In preparation for Panther Lake laptops shipping in early 2026, after Intel appears to have largely wrapped up work on the Linux driver enablement they are now ensuring the necessary firmware bits are out in time...

AMD EPYC 9005 Brings Incredible Performance To The Cloud With Amazon M8a Benchmarks

Phoronix - Wed, 10/15/2025 - 22:30
Last week Amazon/AWS announced the new EC2 M8a instances as their latest-generation, general-purpose compute instances now powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Amazon announced the M8a as having up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price performance over M7a. With my testing of both at 32 vCPUs, the new AMD EPYC Turin instance provided 1.59x the performance over the prior-generation EPYC Genoa instance!

Apple Announces M5 With Much Faster GPU For AI

Phoronix - Wed, 10/15/2025 - 21:25
Apple today announced the M5 SoC as the newest in the Apple Silicon family and with claims of 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI of the M4...

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