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Intel & AMD Form An x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group

Phoronix - Wed, 10/16/2024 - 01:46
Intel and AMD have jointly announced the creation of an x86 ecosystem advisory group to bring together the two companies as well as other industry leaders -- both companies and individuals such as Linux creator Linus Torvalds...

Initial Benchmarks Of The AMD AOCC 5.0 Compiler On 5th Gen EPYC

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 23:00
Last week when launching the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, on the same day AOCC 5.0 was quietly released as the newest version of AMD's Zen-focused compiler derived from LLVM/Clang. With not only adding AMD Zen 5 "znver5" support but also additional vectorization improvements and other performance optimizations, I was eager to run some benchmarks of AOCC 5.0 against the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers. Here are those initial benchmarks using dual AMD EPYC 9755 128-core Zen 5 processors.

Ubuntu 24.10 Developer Preview Released For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 21:42
Following last week's release of Ubuntu 24.10, today Canonical announced a developer preview of an Ubuntu 24.10 Linux build targeting Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops...

LLVM's Modern "Flang-New" Fortran Compiler Renamed To "Flang"

Phoronix - Tue, 10/15/2024 - 20:52
LLVM's modern Fortran compiler "flang-new" has now been renamed to "flang" for next year's LLVM 20 update...

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