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.
Mind bogglingly stupid. Intel invented a storage technology which ... doesn't record any persistent logs about disk failure or activity..
"Once any version of Intel® RST is installed, there are no event logs. Once Intel® RST version 17.x (and above) is installed, there is no way to get system reports. This is currently in the works by Intel engineering; however, Intel® Customer Support does not have an estimated time of arrival (ETA) for this."
The United States has landed another blow to China’s technological advancement, by revoking licenses that allowed Intel and Qualcomm to buy and sell chips to Huawei Technologies, reports @engadget.
Huawei was hit hard when it was placed on U.S. trade restrictions lists in 2019, but a recent comeback — including the launch of an AI-enabled laptop powered by an Intel chip — appears to have renewed the government’s national security worries.
I think Intel flew a little too close to the Sun with their latest generation, high-end Core processors (in order to power the chips, I suppose) and enabled motherboard manufacturers to shove it into the Sun.
Anandtech: Intel Issues Official Statement Regarding 14th and 13th Gen Instability, Recommends Intel Default Settings
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!
i completed an ms challenge that gets me access to a free ms cert exam, but i also signed up to intel cloud courses to take THEIR cert exam for free while also being reminded by amazon that i've got stuff going on with them, i'm so stupid, i see "free exam" and now i am studying half the internet :(
If I finish your Cloud U courses and become a slut for you, Intel, will you send me free computer stuff? I'm getting close to having to do a new computer build.
I'll even tell people that Intel Arc GPUs are Good, Actually. They're probably not, but I'm sure you guys will catch up in the next few generations after NVIDIA eats shit when the AI bubble pops.
So picking up an #IntelArc A380 seemed like a good idea at the time to get a reasonably cheap, low-profile GPU with AV1 support that can run off bus power alone.
Unfortunately I didn't do my own research, and the consumer #Intel discrete GPUs don't play particularly nicely with virtualisation. Intel has seemingly intentionally gimped the consumer Arc cards by removing virtualisation support, while their data centre GPU line on almost identical silicon support it.
There's ways around all of that, which I think I've just about worked out, but the #Linux Intel drivers (i915) don't play particularly well with Linux guests either, which has given me a whole new set of challenges to solve.
All in all, it's be a fun three days, with I'm sure another fun three days of trial and error ahead.
#Linux 6.8.5, 6.6.26, 6.1.85, and 5.15.154 kernels are now available for download at https://kernel.org patched against the latest Spectre BHI (Branch History Injection) vulnerability affecting #Intel and #ARM CPUs.
Linux 6.9 released (lore.kernel.org)