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Qualcomm Preps Cloud AI 200 "AIC200" Accelerator Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 December, 2024

While not as popular as their Snapdragon SoCs, Qualcomm has been offering their Cloud AI line of accelerators for scalable AI inference. The current flagship is the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra as a 150 Watt rated PCIe Gen4 x16 card for up to 870 TOPS INT8 performance, 576MB of SRAM, and 128GB LPR4x memory. But given the latest open-source Linux driver patch activity, Cloud AI 200 "AIC200" wares are on the way...

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KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivers Much Better Fractional Scaling, Clipboard Using SQLite

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 December, 2024

KDE developers continue to be quite busy ahead of the holidays to pack more features into the upcoming Plasma 6.3 desktop release...

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Wine 10.0-rc2 Released With 21 Fixes For The Week

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 December, 2024

Building off last week's release of Wine 10.0-rc1 is now Wine 10.0-rc2 as the next test release in working toward the Wine 10.0 stable debut around mid January...

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Intel Lands "Round Robin Strict" Driver Optimization For Helping Battlemage/Xe2

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 December, 2024

Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are busy working to further refine the Xe2 graphics performance for Lunar Lake integrated graphics and the newly-launched Battlemage discrete graphics. Landing in Mesa 25.0-devel this Friday afternoon is a new "Round Robin Strict" optimization to benefit both their OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on Linux with Xe2 hardware...

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OpenZFS 2.3-rc4 Released With Linux 6.12 LTS Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 December, 2024

Following the OpenZFS 2.2.7 stable point release earlier this week that brought Linux 6.12 LTS kernel compatibility along with various fixes, OpenZFS 2.3-rc4 is out today as the latest step toward the big OpenZFS 2.3 feature release...

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Patches Posted For Review Adding COBOL Frontend To GCC Compiler

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 December, 2024

The COBOL programming language may be 65 years old since its original release but the mainline GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) in 2025 might finally see upstream support for it...

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Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Linux Workstation Graphics Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 December, 2024

Yesterday I shared the Linux gaming performance and OpenCL / GPU compute performance for the new Intel Arc B580 Battlemage graphics card. Today the focus is a look at how well the Linux workstation graphics performance for Battlemage is looking relative to the existing Alchemist hardware with the Intel Arc A-Series graphics cards.

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VKD3D-Proton 2.14 Released With New Features For D3D12 On Vulkan

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 December, 2024

Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valvej ust released VKD3D-Proton 2.14 as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 implementation built atop the Vulkan API for Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

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Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Ship With The Linux 6.14 Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 December, 2024

This shouldn't be too surprising especially after Canonical's commitment last year to always ship the latest upstream kernel version for Ubuntu releases moving forward, but the plan was confirmed today that Ubuntu 25.04 intends to ship with the Linux 6.14 kernel...