I'm not actually hoping for AMD and Intel to overtake NVIDIA in the GPU market. I'd rather see their integrated GPUs get so good that we don't need dedicated GPUs anymore.
AMD P-State Preferred Core handling for modern Ryzen systems. This is for leveraging ACPI CPPC data between CPU cores for improving task placement on AMD Ryzen systems for cores that can achieve higher frequencies and also helping in hybrid selection between say Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores. This AMD Preferred Core support has been in development since last year.
Performance gains on AMD 4th Gen EPYC
AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager merged along with other work as part of better supporting the AMD MI300 series.
AMD has continued upstreaming more RDNA3+ refresh and RDNA4 graphics hardware support into the AMDGPU driver.
I find it funny that #OrangePi is collaborating with #Manjaro to make a #gaming handheld called #OrangePiNeo and it's not #ARM but just yet another #AMD handheld like the rest of the fleet? Isn't Orange Pi a popular alternative to #RaspberryPi that sells ARM-based SBCs?
Power to them I guess but I definitely would love to see more ARM-based #Linux gaming handhelds (not #Android, we have a ton of those already) available, no matter how "not ready" ARM + Linux gaming is. Software support could always be improved and worked on later down the road once the hardware is available to target.
Great power efficiency and high performance in an ultra portable form factor: The TUXEDO Pulse 14
Benefit from:
➡ energy saving operation with a lot of processing power
➡ a very quiet cooling
➡ a bright 16:10 3K display (400 nits, 100% sRGB)
➡ ultra light (1.4 kg) and thin (18 mm) ultrabook chassis
➡ and many more
Sometimes I lay awake at night and think about where we would stand as a society today if the Transmeta #Crusoe wouldn't have failed due to too low supply for the sudden rise in demand.
Would intel CPUs be designed the way they are now? Or would intel have found a different way of saving energy? Maybe a #Pentium 4 would have been a really good, innovative design in that world.
Would we have another big player in the desktop and laptop #CPU market with Transmeta? Would #AMD have bought them by now?
Would Apple have considered switching to #Transmeta CPUs if there would have been several improved successors over the years?
Why is it that people seem to only think about worrying and anxiety-inducing topics when they can't fall asleep?
Would #intel have extinguished the new competitor anyway by incorporating the Crusoe's concepts, e.g. into their Pentium M line.
How would the x86-64 architecture differ from what it is?
Would Linus Torvalds have had the same amount of time available for work on Linux? Would he have delegated decisions more or earlier and if so, which decisions in the kernel development would have been made differently?
The Golden era of Mini PCs - more powerful and often less $ than a #RaspberryPi - because we are in the tail end of #Intel's monolithic die. Notice #AMD has no super value proposition low end chips to go into a ~$150ish mini! Why? Chiplets and fabrics. Intel missed this boat and when an i9 doesn't come out of the oven right they fuse off features and it becomes an i7, i5, i3, all the way down to the kind of amazing value n100 which you find in $120 PCs. Intel is onto chiplets now, era to end!
Spent the afternoon trying to get my 3500U to downclock to anything lower than 1.4GHz... long story short, amd_pstate is gatekept by Lenovo's unwillingness to allow us to enable ACPI on the BIOS of the Thinkpad T495, where there is a huge amount of people complaining about this and yet no BIOS update has been provided... some work is ongoing on kernel 6.8+ to bring compatibility to AMD APUs but we are not there yet... Of course, if I had Windows, this works, regardless of the BIOS. So there's that. I'll wait for the geniuses to crack this CPU power savings and underclocking. Meantime? Will carry my laptop charger, just in case I need to juice it up.
Really interested in the new #Tuxedo#Sirius Gen-2 laptop with both #AMD cpu & gpu, cause i'm fed up with the still truly horrible power-management of #NVIDIA gpu's on #linux.
Anyone know of reviews of it, apart from the 1 by #thelinuxexperiment?
Also, the Gen-1 was only available for a few months, which seems weird? and the only difference looks the cpu, changed from Ryzen 7 7840HS to 8845HS, which doenst make much difference. Anyone know what happened there? @tuxedocomputers
Interesting to see AMD come out with an EPYC processor for the AM5 socket. Intel has done that with their entry-level Xeon processors that use the same socket as their desktop Core processor counterparts.
WCCF Tech: AMD To Launch EPYC 4004 CPUs For Mainstream AM5 Platforms: X3D 3D V-Cache & Standard Variants
Linux 6.9 released (lore.kernel.org)