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Intel Engineers To Return To Working On Habana Labs Linux Driver, Gaudi 3 Expected

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March

After a few Habana Labs driver maintainers left Intel last year and the upstream open-source Habana Labs driver going on rather a hiatus, it looks like Intel software engineers will be returning to work on this upstream Linux kernel driver for supporting the Gaudi AI accelerators...

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Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Released With AMD Zen 5 Support, More Performance Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March

The Xen Project announced the availability today of the Xen 4.20 virtualization hypervisor...

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 + RX 9070 XT Linux Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March

Last week AMD formally announced the Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards that will begin shipping tomorrow at $549 for the Radeon RX 9070 and $599 for the RX 9070 XT. Today the review embargo is lifted so we can now share Linux performance benchmarks and more details on the open-source Linux driver support for these first AMD RDNA4 graphics cards.

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Linux GPU Compute Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March

In addition to the Radeon RX 9070 series Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks with today's embargo lift, I've also spent some time working on some GPU compute benchmarks for these first RDNA4 graphics cards. Here is a look at some initial GPU compute benchmarks of the Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards, mostly on cross-vendor OpenCL benchmarks, and a few words on the GPU compute stack support for the Radeon RX 9070.

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Making Vulkan More Of A "Joy To Use" Discussed At Vulkanised 2025

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March

In addition to Vulkan-powered AI / machine learning talks at last month's Vulkanised 2025 conference, another interesting topic at this annual Vulkan developer conference was around improving the Vulkan API and making it easier for new developers and maximizing the potential with new GPU hardware...

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FreeDesktop.org GitLab Will Be Down For Up To One Week Due To Cloud Migration

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March

The FreeDesktop.org GitLab instance that is heavily relied upon for the development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, and many other Linux desktop projects will be down for up to one week later this month due to its cloud migration...

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Linux 6.15 Preparing Support For The XP-Pen Artist Pro 19, A Big 4K Drawing Tablet

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March

Linux already supports a number of XP-Pen drawing tablets while the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is set to include support for another one: the XP-Pen Artist Pro 19. This XP-Pen Artist Pro 19 is a big, 4K resolution display drawing tablet that retails for nearly $800 USD and features dual stylus, 16K pressure levels, and a nice display for this 19-inch drawing surface...

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More Apple SoC DeviceTree Additions Being Upstreamed For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 March

Sven Peter continues work on upstreaming more of the Apple SoC support to the mainline Linux kernel. On the DeviceTree side following the DT support for Apple T2 SoCs sent out last month, another set of updates were submitted this week ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window...

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AMD ZenDNN 5.0.1 Released To Help With EPYC Inferencing For Recommender Systems & LLMs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 March

Released last year shortly after the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processor launch was ZenDNN 5.0 for Zen 5 optimized CPU inferencing with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow. ZenDNN 5.0 delivers up to a 400% performance uplift according to AMD engineers. Out today is ZenDNN 5.0.1 with further optimizations, particularly around recommendation engines and large language models (LLMs)...