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SMT Proves Very Advantageous For AMD Ryzen AI MAX Strix Halo Performance  Phoronix

Coalition for Smarter Buildings Foundation Enables Building Management Innovation with Open Source Technical Project Contributions to the Linux Foundation  PR Newswire

SMT Proves Very Advantageous For AMD Ryzen AI MAX Strix Halo Performance  Phoronix

While Intel opted against implementing Hyper Threading for their latest Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors, Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) still proves very effective on the AMD side. Even though the top-end AMD Ryzen AI MAX "Strix Halo" SoCs provide 16 Zen 5 cores, the presence of SMT for 32 threads still proves worthwhile from both a performance and power efficiency perspective. Here is an on/off comparison for SMT with the flagship AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 within the HP ZBook Ultra G1a.

AMD compiler engineer Joseph Huber is the one who ported DOOM to run on GPUs atop ROCm + LLVM libc as part of taking standard C/C++ code to run on GPUs and more recently has also been pursuing Flang/Fortran support atop GPUs. The latest in this ongoing quest is implementing efficient malloc support for memory allocation support on GPUs via the LLVM libc library...

Linux Hits Multi-Year High on Steam in May 2025  WebProNews

Valve engineer Pierre-Loup A. Griffais contributed ByoWave Proteus controller support to the Linux kernel. ByoWave Proteus are some modular controller designs that can be adapted based upon the needs of the gamer and even what title you may be playing at the moment. The triggers and buttons are all repositionable for a very customized controller experience. The only downside is the modular gaming controller kit retails for $299 USD, but at least now works off the mainline Linux kernel...

ByoWave Modular Proteus Controller Kit Support Lands In Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Merged last week for the Linux 6.16 kernel coming later this summer were the many block subsystem updates as well as the IO_uring feature updates...

NVMe FDP Block Write Streams, IO_uring DMA-BUF Zero Copy Receive Land In Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Desktop Linux Market Share: June 2025  It's FOSS

The FUSE improvements have been merged for the Linux 6.16 in enhancing the capabilities for file-systems implemented in user-space...

SteamOS: Analysis From a YouTuber Outlines That the Linux-Based Operating System Can Outperform Windows 11 on the Same Hardware  IGN India

June 3, 2025  Hackaday

Malicious Pull Requests? Not on Linus Torvalds' Watch  It's FOSS News

More Rust programming language abstractions for core code of the Linux kernel continues to land for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window...

New Rust Abstractions Added In Linux 6.16 For More Core Areas  Phoronix

One day after Steam on Linux set a recent high with the Steam Survey, a new Steam client beta is out today to fix an excruciating annoyance affecting some Linux gamers...

Gaming on Linux isn't a joke: it just hit a record high on Steam, and it's not just SteamOS doing all the legwork  XDA

Intel's Linux graphics driver engineers continue working on enabling support for the Xe3 integrated graphics premiering with next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs. Today a number of additional PCI device IDs have been merged to the Mesa 25.2 code to reflect the growing family...