Qualcomm Linux Driver Prepares For New "AIC080" Lower-Cost Cloud AI Accelerator

The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 accelerator caters to a variety of edge-to-cloud industries. While the Qualcomm Cloud AI hardware isn't talked about as much as the AI accelerators from other vendors, there is the QAIC driver within the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the Cloud AI 100 along with associated open-source compiler and user-space stack. It turns ou…
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Quartz64 Zero – A customizable, cost-optimized Rockchip RK3566T SBC with Raspberry Pi PCIe connector lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Intel Panther Lake Introducing 5th Gen NPU - Initial Linux Patches Posted

Intel's Linux engineers continue working on preparing for next-generation hardware support within the kernel well ahead of launch. The latest on the recent enablement around next-gen Panther Lake processors is enabling a new "5th Gen" neural processing unit (NPU) to be found with Panther Lake P...
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Speech Note – An Offline Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Translation App for Linux linuxtoday.com/blog/speech-not…

Get a free copy of Whispering Willows during the GOG Autumn Sale gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/get-…

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AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Dominates Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Performance For Linux Developers & Creators

Earlier this week I delivered initial Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics benchmarks on Linux while today the focus is on Lunar Lake's CPU performance. The Xe2 graphics performance under Linux was disappointingly slow with it performing even worse than Meteor Lake while RDNA3.5 graphics led. Intel has been investigating the Xe2 Linu…
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JRPG-inspired adventure Flowstone Saga with a puzzle-battle system is out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/jrpg…

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Pinball Spire is a wonderful reinvention of what Pinball can be gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/pinb…

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ZLUDA Takes On Third Life: Open-Source Multi-GPU CUDA Implementation Focused On AI

The open-source ZLUDA project began life as a drop-in CUDA replacement that ran atop Intel GPUs using the Level Zero API. Then AMD quietly began funding it for several years as a viable CUDA implementation running atop AMD GPUs until discontinued funding earlier this year. ZLUDA for AMD GPUs was then made open-source but then in August the ZLUDA code was removed at …
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Fwupd 2.0 Released To Drop Legacy & Deprecated Bits, Adds New Features

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced Fwupd 2.0 as a major release to this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux systems. Fwupd 2.0 clears out a lot of long deprecated and legacy bits while adding new features and shipping many fixes...
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(Updated) Pine64 Unveils Oz64: An Upcoming SBC Featuring Sophgo SG2000 SoC and Wi-Fi 6 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Dear fediverse nerds: If you're interested in a more open, diverse market like me, then you might find the 6th International Open Search Symposium 2024, (also known as #ossym24 to its friends) interesting.

I'm going for next week, and I'll be in Munich from Wednesday to Friday. I've written a bit more about why I'm going:

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