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ESWIN Launching EBC7702 Mini-DTX RISC-V Board With Dual-Die EIC7702X SoC

Phoronix - Thu, 10/23/2025 - 18:25
For those looking for a new RISC-V desktop option, ESWIN is launching a EBC7702 mini-DTX board powered by the EIC7702X dual-die SoC. The EBC7702 Mini-DTX is aiming for developers who want RISC-V under their desk for working on AI and other development tasks...

Linux Looks To Orphan Its ISDN Subsystem

Phoronix - Thu, 10/23/2025 - 18:09
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) usage is long obsolete even where it had enjoyed some successes in the likes of Germany and Norway. With no activity in years to the ISDN and mISDN subsystem code for the Linux kernel, a patch was sent out today for orphaning the code...

Qualcomm Plumbing "SSR" Support To Deal With Crashes On AI Accelerators

Phoronix - Thu, 10/23/2025 - 17:55
Crashes on NPUs and AI accelerators are unfortunately a thing and yet another obstacle to worry about it with modern computing. Qualcomm developers have sent out patches for Sub-System Restart "SSR" functionality for their Qualcomm AI Accelerator (QAIC) driver for Linux to handle restarts when workload crashes occur on their AI accelerator hardware...

Mesa 25.3-rc2 Release Led By Intel, AMD Radeon & NVK Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 10/23/2025 - 17:46
The second weekly release candidate of Mesa 25.3 is now available for testing ahead of the official release in the coming weeks for this quarterly feature update to this set of open-source OpenGL, OpenCL, and Vulkan graphics drivers...

Oracle OCI Compute E6 Benchmarks For Leading AMD EPYC Turin Performance In The Cloud

Phoronix - Thu, 10/23/2025 - 08:40
Oracle recently launched their E6 compute shape for Oracle Cloud and powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure also launched their Compute Cloud@Customer X11 and Private Cloud Appliance X11 platforms that are all powered by the E6 compute shape with 5th Gen AMD EPYC. For those curious about the performance and value of the Oracle Cloud E6 shape compared to prior-gen E5 as well as alternatives from Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, these benchmarks are geared for you.

OpenZFS 2.4-rc3 Released With New Workarounds For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Thu, 10/23/2025 - 08:14
OpenZFS 2.4 stable should be out in the near future while out today is the third release candidate for this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD operating systems...

Google Develops Code Prefetch Insertion Optimizer For Faster Intel GNR & AMD Turin Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 10/23/2025 - 05:43
Google engineer Rahman Lavaee today announced their work on a prototype software implementation to automatically insert optimal code prefetches into binaries for faster performance, especially for the latest Intel Granite Rapids and AMD Turin processors with new prefetching instructions...

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