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      AMD AOCC 6.0 Brings Zen 6 Optimizations, New "aof" Fortran Compiler, aoc / aoc++ Branding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:54

    With yesterday's launch availability of the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" SP7 processors headlined by the incredibly fast EPYC 9996 and EPYC 9686F processors, AMD also launched AOCC 6.0 as the newest version of their in-house LLVM/Clang-based compiler stack...
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      Intel Releases New CPU Microcode To Fix A Variety Of Functional Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:41

    Intel on Tuesday released the microcode-20261110 package that ships updated CPU microcode binaries for recent Intel Core (Ultra) and Xeon processors. The updated CPU microcode is for Core Gen 13 "Raptor Lake" and newer while on the Xeon server side is for Sapphire Rapids and newer. This is also the first time Clearwater Forest has seen microcode updates...
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      Haiku OS Now Has A UFS Driver, Two & Three Finger Tap Gestures

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:26

    The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has seen new work on drivers and other improvements during the course of October...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Begins Rolling Out upki Support For Certificate Revocation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:43

    With Ubuntu 26.10 that shipped in October there is a little talked about feature with upki revocation support beginning to roll out. Due to the late change, upki for certificate revocation was only enabled for Ubuntu 26.10's curl package but with more plans ahead...
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      AMD EPYC 9996 Benchmarks Show Unparalleled Performance With 256 Zen 6C Cores

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Back in July AMD announced the EPYC 9006 "Venice" series at their Advancing AI event. Today they are announcing EPYC 9006 series Socket SP7 processor availability and with systems beginning to ship today from their OEM/ODM partners. With that we are also now allowed to begin sharing AMD EPYC 9006 performance benchmark figures. Back in July I expected EPYC 9006 to be a "grand slam" for performance... After hands-on with the 6th Gen EPYC processors, it's a grand slam alright -- out of this world.
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      AMD EPYC 9686F Linux Benchmarks: 96 Zen 6 Cores At Up To 5.3GHz

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    In addition to the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core CPU benchmarks out today in that dual socket configuration for a combined 512 cores / 1024 threads flagship Zen 6C server configuration, also tested recently at Phoronix was the EPYC 9686F part. The AMD EPYC 9686F is their new high-frequency Zen 6 part that features 96 cores / 192 threads at a boost clock of 5.3GHz! When the AMD EPYC 9686F they originally disclosed a 5.0GHz boost clock but with how well their production silicon panned out and/or marketing reasons, it's actually now confirmed to be 5.3GHz in production.
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      AMD Talks Up Their MEXT Software Amid RAM Crisis - Linux Support But Not Open-Source

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    This summer AMD acquired the company MEXT for their AI-powered predictive memory technology to make flash memory such as NVMe SSDs behave more like DRAM. AMD MEXT with EPYC servers allows for flash memory as DRAM tiering and uses a predictive AI engine for handling the tiering in an effective way. There is a Linux driver but this is one of the few offerings in the AMD space that isn't open-source as part of their typical open ecosystem approach...
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      AMD Confirms ACE With 7th Gen EPYC "Florence" While 8th Gen EPYC Is "Ravenna"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    During the AMD briefings for 6th Gen EPYC SP7 availability, they did already tease next-gen EPYC processors...
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      AMD EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 Announced

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    In addition to today's announcement of AMD EPYC 9006 SP7 availability, complete with reviews of the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core flagship and EPYC 9686F 96-core 5.3GHz part, AMD also announced the EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 processors...