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System76 Teasing New Pangolin Laptop Powered By AMD Ryzen

Phoronix - Fri, 01/13/2023 - 01:07
System76 is kicking off the new year by preparing to release a new AMD-powered Linux laptop, an updated Pangolin model...

Intel Officially Announces The Core i9 13900KS With 6.0GHz Max Turbo Frequency

Phoronix - Thu, 01/12/2023 - 23:33
Intel today officially announced the Core i9 13900KS as what they claim to be the "world's fastest desktop processor" with up to a 6.0GHz maximum turbo frequency...

Debian Adds Intel's accel-config To Package Archive

Phoronix - Thu, 01/12/2023 - 21:57
Being introduced to the Debian package archive this week is accel-config as Intel's new user-space component for configuring the DSA accelerators found with the new 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors...

AMD Updates Linux Patches For Automatic IBRS On Zen 4

Phoronix - Thu, 01/12/2023 - 20:00
Since early November AMD has been working on Linux patches for Automatic IBRS. AutoIBRS is a new Zen 4 CPU feature intended to provide better performance than generic Retpolines as part of the Spectre V2 mitigations. Two months later the Linux AutoIBRS patches still haven't been merged yet but up to their sixth revision...

AMD Sends In Radeon RX 7000 Series Fixes For Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Thu, 01/12/2023 - 19:32
AMD today sent in a batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver fixes for the in-development Linux 6.2. Notable with this week's AMD graphics driver fixes are a few pertaining to the new Radeon RX 7000 series / RDNA3 hardware...

Intel Preparing New Linux "PerfMon" Performance Monitoring Support For IOMMU

Phoronix - Thu, 01/12/2023 - 19:13
With the Intel VT-d 4.0 specification there is performance monitoring "PerfMon" infrastructure introduced. A new patch series from Intel is preparing for IOMMU performance monitoring with the Linux kernel code...

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