Exploring The Zen 5 SMT Performance With The AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" CPU lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Finally Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon

The OpenCL 3.0 compute specification has been out in finalized form since September 2020. Since then NVIDIA's official Windows/Linux drivers have been exposing OpenCL 3.0 going back to 2021, the Intel Compute Runtime stack has also been exposing OpenCL 3.0 support for years, and even with Mesa's Rusticl open-source OpenCL implementation it's beginning to see Gallium3D driver…
phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-Ope…

Ubuntu Snaps Up Intel's NPU User-Space Software So It's Easier To Accelerate AI

Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical has announced the availability of an Intel NPU driver Snap package within their Snap Store to make it easier to leverage the Intel neural processing unit (NPU) on Core Ultra processors within Ubuntu Linux...
phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Snaps…

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for "empowering public digital infrastructure." In the past two years it has invested more than €23 million (about $24.94M USD) into sixty open technologies...
phoronix.com/news/STF-Two-Year…

ESP32-S3 Development Board with 1.91? AMOLED Display and 6-Axis IMU lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

About that brawl between the WordPress co-founder and WP Engine… lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Intel Lunar Lake vs. AMD Strix Point Platform Profile Performance Comparison lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Microsoft Open-Sources Rust-Written OpenHCL For Running Confidential Intel/AMD VMs

Microsoft announced today the new and now open-source OpenHCL paravisor for the virtualization stack for enabling Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) with this Rust-written software stack. This effort by Microsoft has been five years in the making and is now open-source and will continue to be developed in the open...
phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Op…

Intel NPU Driver Being Updated To Handle Larger AI Workloads

Following the recent patch work for enabling the Intel 5th Gen NPU premiering with Panther Lake, a new patch series posted today brings a number of improvements for this Intel neural processing unit driver -- including the ability to handle larger workloads...
phoronix.com/news/Intel-NPU-Bi…

Kumquat – An Allwinner V3s embedded system board with isolated CAN, Ethernet and ESP32 for WiFi and Bluetooth lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…