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      Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April 2026

    Vulkan 1.4.349 is out today as a small update to the Vulkan API specification that incorporates various fixes that accumulated over the past week. Plus there is one new extension...
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      Framework Computer To Announce Their Next-Gen Hardware Later This Month

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April 2026

    Linux-friendly hardware vendor Framework Computer sent out a notice this morning that they will be announcing their new 2026 hardware products later this month...
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      TUXEDO Laptops Will Enjoy More Features With The Upstream Linux 7.1 Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April 2026

    TUXEDO Computers' laptops received some heat in the past from upstream Linux kernel developers over their out-of-tree kernel drivers but fortunately that situation has been improving. The Uniwill driver premiered in the Linux 6.19 kernel with that OEM manufacturing many of the TUXEDO Computers laptop models. That Uniwill x86 platform driver enabled more functionality for TUXEDO hardware in the mainline kernel and has continued improving since its upstreaming. More features are on the way for Linux 7.1...
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      FEX 2604 Released With Better Memory Savings For Running x86_64 Apps/Games On ARM64

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April 2026

    Out today is the newest monthly update to FEX for this emulator for running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) Linux systems, including games and the likes of Steam Play with Windows games. This Valve-sponsored project that is quite important for the upcoming Steam Frame has rolled out more performance improvements, memory savings, and other improvements with FEX 2604...
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      Intel NPU Linux Driver To Allow Limiting Frequency For Power & Thermal Management

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 April 2026

    The Intel IVPU accelerator driver used on Linux for the neural processing unit (NPU) on Core Ultra SoCs saw a patch posted for allowing the NPU clock frequency to be limited in the name of power and thermal management...
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      ASUS Armoury Driver Supports A Few More Laptops With Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 April 2026

    Merged back in Linux 6.19 was the ASUS Armoury driver to enhance support for the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and modern ASUS laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver enables various laptop features to be toggled under Linux and since its introduction it has continued expanding support for more ASUS devices. Ahead of Linux 7.0 coming out on Sunday, a few more devices are now supported by this upstream driver...
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      SiFive Raises $400M To Double Down On High Performance RISC-V For Data Centers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 April 2026

    RISC-V processor IP purveyor SiFive just announced they have raised $400 million USD in an over-subscribed Series G financing round. This latest funding is so they can further focus on delivering high performance RISC-V designs for the data center...
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      RISC-V Optimized strnlen Implementation For Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 April 2026

    In addition to RISC-V discontinuing its eXecute In Place "XIP" kernel support for Linux 7.1, there is an optimized strnlen() function coming for Linux 7.1 on RISC-V as well as some other optimized functions...
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      Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 April 2026

    Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics driver team primarily working on the RADV Vulkan driver has come up with a new interesting creation: patches to the Linux kernel and KDE for sharply improving the gaming experience for those running systems with limited amounts of video memory. Such as for graphics cards with just 8GB of dedicated vRAM, the patches now available -- initially on CachyOS for a nice out-of-the-box experience -- provide a noticeably better Linux gaming experience...