Marek Olšák who had been a longtime AMD Linux driver engineer specializing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, recently began working for Valve on their Linux graphics driver team. His focus has understandably shifted to working on the RADV Vulkan driver and one of his early optimizations now with the Valve hat on is up to a 100% pixel throughput optimization for the RADV driver, which is already quite well optimized thanks to years of investment from Valve, Red Hat, and others...
Every day, I talk to IT executives, commercial leaders, and partners who are facing the exact same pressure: How do we move from AI experimentation to true enterprise production?If you glance at the tech headlines today, you’d think the answer is simple. The industry has become utterly obsessed with the concept of agentic AI—the promise of autonomous software agents executing complex corporate workflows with the flick of a switch. The mainstream narrative treats AI like a standalone magic box. Buy the right proprietary model, plug it in, and watch your operational headaches vanish.But out