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      Intel Optimization Zone 1.2 Released With New Guides & Recommendations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:06

    Earlier this year Intel announced the "Optimization Zone" as their new initiative to provide a centralized place to collect all their resources for maximizing performance and software tuning on Intel hardware platforms. They've continued building out more resources for the Intel Optimization Zone and yesterday released v1.2 with more tuning guides and best practices for optimal performance on Intel hardware...
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      NVIDIA Olympus SMT Optimizations For Vera CPU Showing 3~6% Performance Gains

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:27

    Back in August I wrote about NVIDIA working on Linux scheduler improvements for helping the SMT performance on their new Vera CPU with Olympus cores. That work remains ongoing but is looking fairly beneficial for performance especially for knocking it out in less than one hundred lines of code...
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      Qualcomm Continues Doing More For Their Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:17

    Rob Clark, who originally started working on the reverse-engineering Freedreno and MSM DRM graphics driver projects prior to even being employed by Qualcomm, presented this week at XDC 2026 Toronto around all the recent efforts they have been pursuing at Qualcomm for this upstream open-source graphics driver stack...
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      New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:55

    The Renesas SH7305 isn't a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half. But finally the mainline Linux kernel may end up seeing support for this 32-bit SH-4a RISC core...
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      Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Price Increases To $77.50 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:29

    During the last round of price hikes on Raspberry Pi devices due to RAM pricing, they were able to keep the 1GB and 2GB single board computer versions steady. But Eben Upton announced today that the RAM pricing has become "unsustainable" and even the 2GB versions now are facing steep price hikes...
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      OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released With More AI Apps, Snaps & PGO + LTO Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:36

    For ending out the month of September the OpenMandriva Linux distribution crew released OpenMandriva ROME 26.0 as their long overdue release held up by various technical issues and a reported sabotage attempt to their platform. With OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 having been their last release, this is quite a big update...
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      Valve's Work On Foveated Rendering For The Open-Source Turnip Driver On The Steam Frame

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:18

    As part of Valve's work on developing the Steam Frame VR headset, they worked on foveated rendering support for the Mesa Turnip driver that supports the Qualcomm Adreno graphics with open-source Vulkan API support. Foveated rendering is the technique to more closely mimic human vision by rendering high detail at your direct gaze point and lower quality in the peripheral vision. For computer graphics, foveated rendering for headsets can be beneficial for conserving power in areas of the render frame that are less important to provide more performance with your main area of focus...
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      More AI In Open-Source, CachyOS, Ryzen AI Halo, Framework Laptop 13 Pro & Other Q3 Hits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    With the third quarter wrapping up, here is a look back at the most interesting content on Phoronix over the past three months...
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      EDG C/C++ Front-End Open-Sourced

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Edison Design Group has open-sourced their EDG C/C++ front-end that has been known in the commercial world for its extensive dialect support and other features. The EDG C++ front-end has been used by the likes of Intel C++ Compiler classic, NVIDIA CUDA NVCC, and even Microsoft Visual Studio for IntelliSense...