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News•Feb 25, 2026
AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 "Sorano" Series
AMD announced the EPYC 8005 “Sorano” series, a Zen 5‑based, single‑socket processor line succeeding the 8004 “Siena” family. Designed for 1P servers, the chips target telco and radio‑access‑network workloads with a focus on performance‑per‑dollar and performance‑per‑watt. The series promises high core counts, NEBS‑compliant thermal ranges, and will ship in the coming months, though detailed SKUs remain undisclosed. The launch fills the performance gap between AMD’s high‑end 9000 series and entry‑level offerings.
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News•Feb 25, 2026
Arm & Linaro Launch New "CoreCollective" Consortium - With Backing From AMD & Others
Arm and Linaro have unveiled the CoreCollective consortium, an open‑source‑focused alliance aimed at accelerating the Arm software ecosystem. The group is financially backed by Arm and invites any vendor to join for free. Founding members include AMD, Ampere, Canonical, Google,...
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News•Feb 24, 2026
D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux
D7VK 1.4 has been released, extending the open‑source layer that translates Direct3D 5‑7 calls to Vulkan on Linux. The update introduces depth write‑back support, color‑key transparency, and a consolidated legacy DDraw interoperability path. Compatibility for older Direct3D 5 and 6 titles has been...
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News•Feb 24, 2026
Google Cloud N4 Series Benchmarks: Google Axion Vs. Intel Xeon Vs. AMD EPYC Performance
Google Cloud’s new N4A series, powered by the in‑house Axion ARM64 processor, was benchmarked against the existing N4 Intel Xeon and N4D AMD EPYC instances. All three tests used 16 vCPU configurations, 400 GB storage and Ubuntu 25.10. The Axion chips lack simultaneous...
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News•Feb 24, 2026
AMD's HIP Moves To Using LLVM's New Offload Driver By Default
AMD’s HIP runtime will now use LLVM’s new offload driver by default starting with LLVM 23, aligning it with CUDA and OpenMP offloading paths. The modern driver offers a unified interface, device‑side LTO, static library support, and cross‑platform compatibility. Previously, HIP...
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News•Feb 24, 2026
Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA
The open‑source PanVK driver for Arm Mali GPUs received a major update in Mesa 26.1 that reworks its framebuffer abstraction and moves MSAA resolves into a final frame shader. This change yields dramatic performance improvements in the Sascha Willems Vulkan multisampling...
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News•Feb 23, 2026
Modern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0
The AMDGPU/AMDKFD open‑source driver stack has crossed the six‑million line threshold in the Linux 7.0 kernel, up from four million lines just four years ago. It now accounts for roughly 15% of the entire kernel codebase, making it the single largest...
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News•Feb 23, 2026
Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes
Intel’s open‑source ANV Vulkan driver received a batch of H.265 encode fixes merged into the Mesa 26.1‑devel branch. The changes, contributed by Igalia engineer Hyunjun Ko, add dynamic transform‑skip handling, respect application‑provided QP values, correctly process GPB frames, and clean up unsupported...
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News•Feb 23, 2026
Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.27 For Adaptively Tuning Linux To Different Workloads
Red Hat has released Tuned 2.27, the latest version of its open‑source tuning framework for Linux. The update adds CPU partitioning autodetection, a systemd workaround, and enables CPU boost in performance profiles. It also introduces OpenShift‑specific TCP optimizations, forces SAP HANA latency...
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News•Feb 22, 2026
AMD Zen 6 Performance Events & Metrics Merged For Linux 7.0
Linux 7.0’s merge window added full support for AMD Zen 6 performance events, covering core, uncore and metric counters. The patch set also fixes Zen 5 MAC allocation events and introduces a new perf sched stats tool for scheduler profiling. These updates enable developers...
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News•Feb 22, 2026
Yet Another Fix Coming For Older AMD GPUs On Linux - Thanks To Valve Developer
Valve open‑source graphics engineer Timur Kristóf has released a patch for the AMDGPU driver that restores functionality to legacy Radeon GCN 1.1 GPUs found in older iMacs, such as the Radeon R9 M380. The fix disables the memory‑clock dynamic power management (MCLK DPM) and forces...
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News•Feb 22, 2026
Linux 7.0 Further Prepares For Intel Diamond Rapids With NTB Driver Support
The upstream Linux kernel is largely ready for Intel’s upcoming Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. With the Linux 7.0 release, a new NTB driver adds support for the Gen6 non‑transparent bridge, enabling PCIe 6.0 inter‑CPU communication. Only a few dozen lines of...
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News•Feb 20, 2026
Intel Hiring More Linux Developers - Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack
Intel announced six new engineering openings focused on its Linux graphics stack, including three GPU software development engineers tasked with enhancing Mesa, DRM kernel drivers, and the Linux gaming ecosystem such as Wine and Proton. Additional hires include middleware engineers...
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News•Feb 20, 2026
Linux 7.0 Shows Significant PostgreSQL Performance Gains On AMD EPYC
Early benchmarking of the Linux 7.0 kernel on an AMD EPYC Turin server revealed notable PostgreSQL performance gains compared with the stable 6.19 release. The tests used identical hardware, software stacks and compiler toolchains, isolating the kernel as the variable. While Intel Panther Lake...
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News•Feb 20, 2026
Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0
Early Linux kernel patches for PCI Express 7.0 have been posted, outlining register definitions, speed detection, and basic bandwidth controls. PCIe 7.0, released by the PCI‑SIG in mid‑2025, doubles the raw data rate to 128 GT/s, enabling up to 512 GB/s bi‑directional throughput on...
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News•Feb 20, 2026
Linux 7.0 Brings Apple Type-C PHY, Snapdragon X2 & Rockchip HDMI 2.1 FRL Additions
The Linux 7.0 kernel merge introduced a wave of new PHY drivers, notably adding mainline support for Apple Silicon USB‑C, Qualcomm Snapdragon X2, and several SoC‑specific interfaces. Qualcomm’s lineup now includes PCIe Gen4, DP/eDP, USB UNI, and UFS PHYs for the X2 and 8 Elite...
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News•Feb 20, 2026
Cloud Hypervisor 51 Brings Performance Improvements, Better QCOW2 V3 Support
Cloud Hypervisor 51, the Rust‑based virtual machine monitor, has been released, now steered by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Tencent, Ant Group and others. The update adds Transparent Huge Pages for shared memory and speeds up the vhost‑user‑net device, delivering noticeable performance gains. It...
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News•Feb 20, 2026
Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected
LunarG’s KosmicKrist driver, now merged into Mesa, brings a native Vulkan‑on‑Metal implementation for Apple Silicon. After proving its macOS capabilities, the team announced a roadmap that includes iOS support, performance optimizations, and Vulkan 1.4 conformance. Funding from Google aims to boost...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
Intel's Discontinued Open-Source OpenPGL Project Finds A New Home
Intel discontinued its open‑source OpenPGL library in 2025, ending development within the oneAPI Rendering Toolkit. The path‑guiding library, widely adopted by Blender, Autodesk, V‑Ray and other VFX tools, has now been transferred to the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF). ASWF will...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
System76 Preparing To Introduce Redesigned Thelio Hardware
System76 announced a ground‑up redesign of its Thelio desktop and workstation chassis, signaling the next generation of its Linux‑focused hardware line. CEO Carl Richell highlighted ten months of engineering, more than 16,000 durability tests, and over 250 hours of thermal...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
Linux 7.0 Brings Several Enhancements For Modern Laptops
Linux 7.0’s merge window delivered a suite of x86 platform‑driver updates aimed at modern laptops. The AMD Platform Management Framework now surfaces detailed Ryzen AI NPU metrics, while ASUS, HP, and Lenovo WMI drivers gain enhanced backlight, fan, and hardware‑monitoring controls....
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News•Feb 18, 2026
LoongArch Ready With New Features In Linux 7.0
The Linux 7.0 kernel introduces a suite of enhancements for the LoongArch architecture, a China‑origin CPU design derived from MIPS64 and RISC‑V. New capabilities include SMT hot‑plug support, 128‑bit atomic compare‑and‑exchange operations, and the memfd_secret system call. Additional updates bring BPF...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
Apple M3 With Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress, No ETA Yet For Shipping
Asahi Linux released a status update following the Linux 6.19 kernel, outlining progress on Apple Silicon support. The team reports that core M3 hardware components—keyboard, touchpad, Wi‑Fi, NVMe and USB‑3—are functional, though still requiring local patches. DisplayPort Alt Mode remains experimental,...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
Intel Lands Initial Preparations For DSA 3.0 Accelerators In Linux 7.0
Intel’s Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) 3.0 support has been merged into the Linux 7.0 kernel, bringing native off‑load capabilities for recent Xeon processors, likely Diamond Rapids. The update introduces new sysfs interfaces that expose DSA 3.0 capability registers and adds...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
KVM In Linux 7.0 Adds Support For Virtualizing AMD ERAPS
The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel brings a major KVM update, adding native virtualization of AMD’s Enhanced Return Address Predictor Security (ERAPS). This enables guests to access a 64‑entry Return Stack Buffer, double the previous limit, and introduces user‑space fetching of SEV‑SNP...
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