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      Pre-Compiled Headers Being Debated For LLVM/Clang To Speed-Up Build By 1.5~2x

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    LLVM developers and other stakeholders have begun debating the use of pre-compiled headers "PCH" as a means of speeding up the compiulation of the LLVM compiler infrastructure by 1.5x to 2x than with non-PCH builds...
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      Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from November. But now the December results have been revised with a nice bump to the Linux marketshare...
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      Flatpak Exploring GPU Virtualization To Ease Driver Challenges

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    Open-source developer Sebastian Wick has written a blog post outlining work to improve the graphics driver situation for Flatpaks. Particularly around situations like the NVIDIA driver stack that may depend upon a specific kernel version or where a Flatpak runtime may be end-of-life, dealing with GPU drivers in Flatpaks can be a burden. A solution being explored is GPU virtualization to deal with those GPU driver handling challenges while still providing robust and secure GPU access...
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      Intel Core Ultra X7 358H + 32GB RAM Laptop Around ~$1300 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    Yesterday when Intel formally introduced Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 with pre-orders set to begin today and available globally later this month, one of the key questions remaining was around pricing... I've been scouting various Internet retailers today and so far have found a Ultra X7 358H model with the 12 Xe cores for the Xe3 integrated graphics to be priced around $1299 USD with 32GB of RAM...
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      AMD Releases GAIA 0.15 - Positioning It As A Framework/SDK For Building AI PC Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    Last year AMD announced GAIA as short for "Generative AI Is Awesome". It started off as a Windows-only AI demo but over time added Linux support along with introducing different AI agents. For going along with AMD's AI announcements at CES 2026, AMD released GAIA 0.15 where they are now positioning this software as a framework/SDK for building AI PC agents...
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      GStreamer 1.28-RC1 Brings A Rust-Based GIF Decoder, Other New Rust Components

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    On Monday the first release candidate of the GStreamer 1.28 multimedia framework was released. As is a recurring focus in recent releases, more GStreamer code is written in Rust for memory safety especially around decoding content...
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      AMD Announces Ryzen 7 9850X3D, New Strix Halo SKUs & Ryzen AI 400 Series

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    Lisa Su's keynote just wrapped up at CES 2026 and in turn the embargo regarding AMD's first consumer product announcements for 2026. The AMD Ryzen AI 400 series and new Ryzen 7 9850X3D 3D V-Cache processors are what's in focus for CES this year.
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      Intel Talks Up Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" & Arc B390 Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Intel just hosted their CES keynote where they formally launched Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 SoCs...
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      Radeon Linux Driver Patches For Next-Gen Hardware Point To New NPU Integration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Back in November AMD began posting open-source Linux graphics driver patches for some next-gen graphics IP. Those IP block patches were for MMHUB, PSP, and other blocks making up modern AMD GPUs. The GFXHUB patch pointed it to being part of the GFX12 / RDNA4 family. Out today are new patches for enabling the SMU15 IP and an interesting takeaway there is some apparent NPU integration for future Radeon graphics...