AMD & System76 Teaming Up For ROCm "Radeon Test Drive"

AMD's Advancing AI 2025 event last week was very busy with announcing the Instinct MI350X and MI355X, the ROCm 7.0 preview, and debuting the AMD Developer Cloud. In addition, they held pre-briefs around the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and buried in as part of that was another new disclosure: Radeon Test Drive. Radeon Test Drive was brought up as something that's coming later this summe…
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AMD Shares More Details On The Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series

Prior to the AMD Advancing AI 2025 event last week, AMD shared additional details on their forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series processors.
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Qt 6.10 Beta Released With Native PipeWire Audio Backend For Qt Multimedia

Qt 6.10 Beta 1 released today as the next stepping stone for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit. Qt 6.10 isn't bringing any new modules but is deprecating the Qt Charts and Qt Data Visualization code...
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Released With Many Fantastic Improvements

KDE Plasma 6.4 is out today with many fantastic improvements for this open-source desktop...
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Intel's Next-Gen QAT Hardware Can Be Optimized For Just Decompression Use

Merged recently for the Linux 6.16 kernel was initial support for Intel QAT Gen6 hardware. A new qat_6xxx driver was added for supporting the next-gen QuickAssist Technology accelerator IP being found with upcoming Intel Xeon processors. Patches being prepared now for the Linux 6.17 kernel are building out a new decompression service for that next-generation hardwar…
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Intel THC Linux Driver Ready To Support Wake-on-Touch "WoT"

Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Core Ultra laptops for dealing with the touchpad, touchscreen, and related touch-control functionality. This open-source driver is still being built-out ahead of next-generation Core Ultra laptops hitting the market...
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