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AMD Completes Nod.ai Acquisition To Enhance Open-Source AI Capabilities

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 05:15
It was just over one week ago that AMD announced plans to acquire Nod.ai to enhance their open-source AI software capabilities. Today already they announced that acquisition has completed...

Linux's DRM GPUVM Code Relicensed From GPLv2-Only To GPLv2 Or MIT

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 05:01
Sent out today were a new batch of drm-misc-next changes intended for Linux 6.7. There's various fixes to the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers, DRM VM_BIND async documentation, and other small changes. Plus the DRM_GPUVM code has been re-licensed from being GPLv2-only to now GPLv2 or MIT...

AMD Family 19h CPU Microcode Updated (2023-10-19 Rev)

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 03:02
AMD today published a new CPU microcode revision for Family 19h processors, which include Zen 3 / Zen 3+ / Zen 4 processors. As is sadly standard, no change-log is provided...

Intel Meteor Lake Graphics Declared Stable With Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 00:47
With the pending changes set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.7 kernel, all known issues/limitations around the i915 kernel driver support for upcoming integrated graphics with Intel Meteor Lake laptop processors...

Even Though It's Currently Slow, The Mesa NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan Driver Has Been Making Good Progress

Phoronix - Thu, 10/19/2023 - 23:11
During XDC 2023 this week in Spain, Faith Ekstrand with Collabora provided a status update on the NVK Vulkan driver that continues to be developed inside Mesa for providing open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver support...

AMD Introduces Radeon RX 7900M Laptop Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 10/19/2023 - 22:30
In addition to AMD announcing the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series / Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series, AMD also used today for announcing the Radeon RX 7900M for what they are calling their fastest Radeon laptop graphics ever developer...

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