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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...
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      GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default...
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      Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    A developer from Valve working on the RADV Vulkan driver was once again the most prolific contributor to Mesa in 2025 followed by AMD's Marek Olšák with continued improvements around RadeonSI and Gallium3D...
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      Radeon RADV Driver Lands Another Ray-Tracing Improvement: 30% Faster On RDNA2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Konstantin Seurer as one of the open-source developers working on the RADV driver for Valve has landed another ray-tracing performance optimization for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release...
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      Apple SMC Power Driver Posted For Linux Kernel To Finally Expose Battery Stats

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    The newest open-source Apple Silicon driver being submitted for review in working toward its inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel is the Apple Silicon SMC power driver for being able to expose MacBook battery power metrics as well as AC power adapter status reporting under Linux...
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      Patches Posted Seeking To Mainline Support For The Acer Swift SFA14-11 Snapdragon Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are hoping to provide mainline support for the Acer Swift SFA14-11 laptop powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite X1E78100 SoC...
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      Intel Xe Driver Preps THP Support For "Significant" SVM Performance Gains

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 January 2026

    Intel engineer Francois Dugast today sent out the new patch series for enabling Transparent Hugepages (THP) support within the drm_pagemap code with a focus on the Intel Xe kernel driver usage. This enabling of THP support and in turn 2MB pages by the Xe driver is yielding "significant" performance improvements when using Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) such as for GPU compute workloads...