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Lip-Bu Tan Named As Next Intel CEO

Phoronix - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 04:55
Intel announced a short time ago that Lip-Bu Tan has been named as the company's next CEO...

Ubuntu 25.10 Looks To Make Use Of Rust Coreutils & Other Rust System Components

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 23:54
Plans have been drafted to begin using more Rust-rewritten Linux system components within the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year and ahead of next year's all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Among the Rust components being planned for use in Ubuntu 25.10 is the Rust Coreutils "uutils" software...

AMD's 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver For Squeezing More Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 23:30
Merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel was the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for being able to influence the kernel's scheduling decisions on AMD processors where only a subset of CCDs have the larger 3D V-Cache. With this new driver users can communicate their cache vs. frequency preference for influencing where new tasks are first placed if on the CCD with the larger L3 cache or with the higher frequency potential. Here is a look at the impact of using the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver with the new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 Released With Server-Side QUIC

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:04
OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 is out today as the first development milestone on the path to releasing OpenSSL 3.5.0 in April...

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Linux Benchmarks Forthcoming

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 21:50
Today marks the retail availability of the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors. At the top of the hour when the new AMD Zen 5 3D V-Cache processors went on sale, I found both the 9900X3D and 9950X3D in-stock and at MSRP pricing... Less than a half hour later, the 9950X3D is now out of stock while as of writing the 9900X3D remains in-stock at major Internet retailers at its $599 price point...

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