📰 Intel Appears To Have Quietly Sunset "On Demand" Software Defined Silicon
Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a "Software Defined Silicon" feature for activating extra licensed hardware features. That Software Defined Silicon support continued moving forward and was then announced as Intel On Demand with a focus on users being able to pay to activate additional accelerators found on select SKUs but not enabled by default...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-On-Demand-SDSi-Sunset
#intel #linux
Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a "Software Defined Silicon" feature for activating extra licensed hardware features. That Software Defined Silicon support continued moving forward and was then announced as Intel On Demand with a focus on users being able to pay to activate additional accelerators found on select SKUs but not enabled by default...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-On-Demand-SDSi-Sunset
#intel #linux
Phoronix
Intel Appears To Have Quietly Sunset "On Demand" Software Defined Silicon
Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a 'Software Defined Silicon' feature for activating extra licensed hardware features
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📰 GEEKOM A9 Max Review: Mini PC with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
Last summer GEEKOM released a pair of mini PCs with the latest Intel and AMD processors: the GEEKOM IT15 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H Arrow Lake processor and the GEEKOM A9 Max with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point processor. When I reviewed the Intel model, I noted that the .
🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/geekom-a9-max-review-mini-pc-with-amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370/
#intel #amd
Last summer GEEKOM released a pair of mini PCs with the latest Intel and AMD processors: the GEEKOM IT15 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H Arrow Lake processor and the GEEKOM A9 Max with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point processor. When I reviewed the Intel model, I noted that the .
🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/geekom-a9-max-review-mini-pc-with-amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370/
#intel #amd
Liliputing
GEEKOM A9 Max Review: Mini PC with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
GEEKOM A9 Max Review: Mini PC with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
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📰 Intel CPU Microcode 20260210 Brings Security Updates & Functional Fixes
Intel today for Patch Tuesday released several generations worth of CPU microcode updates for addressing multiple security issues and functional issues...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-20260210-Microcode
#intel
Intel today for Patch Tuesday released several generations worth of CPU microcode updates for addressing multiple security issues and functional issues...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-20260210-Microcode
#intel
Phoronix
Intel CPU Microcode 20260210 Brings Security Updates & Functional Fixes
Intel today for Patch Tuesday released several generations worth of CPU microcode updates for addressing multiple security issues and functional issues.
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📰 Linux 7.0 Graphics Drivers See New AMD Hardware, Intel Xe SR-IOV + Multi-Device SVM
The massive set of Linux kernel graphics/display driver Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates were sent out and merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. This also includes the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers for AI NPUs and the like...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Graphics-Drivers
#intel #kernel #linux #amd
The massive set of Linux kernel graphics/display driver Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates were sent out and merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. This also includes the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers for AI NPUs and the like...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Graphics-Drivers
#intel #kernel #linux #amd
Phoronix
Linux 7.0 Graphics Drivers See New AMD Hardware, Intel Xe SR-IOV + Multi-Device SVM
The massive set of Linux kernel graphics/display driver Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates were sent out and merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel
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📰 Lilbits: Android 17 Beta 1, Intel Arc B370 iGPU performance, and a $27 RLCD display with an ESP32-S3 chip
Waveshare is now selling a cheap dev board that combines a 4.2 inch, 400 x 300 pixel RLCD sunlight-readable, black and white “E-paper-like” low-power display with an ESP32-S3 processor featuring support for WiFi and Bluetooth. Available with a battery for $27 or without one for $25, the kit could be an interesting alternative to E .
🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-android-17-beta-1-intel-arc-b370-igpu-performance-and-a-27-rlcd-display-with-an-esp32-s3-chip/
#intel #android
Waveshare is now selling a cheap dev board that combines a 4.2 inch, 400 x 300 pixel RLCD sunlight-readable, black and white “E-paper-like” low-power display with an ESP32-S3 processor featuring support for WiFi and Bluetooth. Available with a battery for $27 or without one for $25, the kit could be an interesting alternative to E .
🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-android-17-beta-1-intel-arc-b370-igpu-performance-and-a-27-rlcd-display-with-an-esp32-s3-chip/
#intel #android
Liliputing
Lilbits: Android 17 Beta 1, Intel Arc B370 iGPU performance, and a $27 RLCD display with an ESP32-S3 chip
Lilbits: Android 17 Beta 1, Intel Arc B370 iGPU performance, and a $27 RLCD display with an ESP32-S3 chip
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📰 Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0
The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the Intel LPSS driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-MFD
#linux #intel #kernel
The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the Intel LPSS driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-MFD
#linux #intel #kernel
Phoronix
Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0
The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the Intel LPSS driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel.
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📰 Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics
The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful information for AMD and Intel CPUs can now report some L2 cache stats for recent Intel CPUs beginning with Linux 7.0...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Turbostat-Linux-7.0
#linux #intel #amd
The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful information for AMD and Intel CPUs can now report some L2 cache stats for recent Intel CPUs beginning with Linux 7.0...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Turbostat-Linux-7.0
#linux #intel #amd
Phoronix
Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics
The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful information for AMD and Intel CPUs can now report some L2 cache stats for recent Intel CPUs beginning with Linux 7.0.
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📰 Intel hiring GPU driver engineers for Linux
It's not just NVIDIA hiring to improve their Linux graphics drivers, as Intel are also looking for multiple new driver engineers.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/intel-hiring-gpu-driver-engineers-for-linux/
#linux #intel
It's not just NVIDIA hiring to improve their Linux graphics drivers, as Intel are also looking for multiple new driver engineers.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/intel-hiring-gpu-driver-engineers-for-linux/
#linux #intel
GamingOnLinux
Intel hiring GPU driver engineers for Linux
It's not just NVIDIA hiring to improve their Linux graphics drivers, as Intel are also looking for multiple new driver engineers.
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📰 Intel Formally Ends Four Of Their Go Language Open-Source Projects
Following various Intel open-source projects recently being archived with Intel formally discontinuing their development, another wave of Intel open-source projects were formally sunset on Monday...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Stops-Go-Projects
#opensource #intel
Following various Intel open-source projects recently being archived with Intel formally discontinuing their development, another wave of Intel open-source projects were formally sunset on Monday...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Stops-Go-Projects
#opensource #intel
Phoronix
Intel Formally Ends Four Of Their Go Language Open-Source Projects
Following various Intel open-source projects recently being archived with Intel formally discontinuing their development, another wave of Intel open-source projects were formally sunset on Monday.
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📰 Nvidia Readies New Arm-Based Chips for Dell, Lenovo Laptops
Nvidia is returning to consumer PCs through new partnerships with Intel and MediaTek, aiming to power AI-enabled laptops that rival Apple’s efficiency...
🔗 Source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-nvidia-return-consumer-pc-ai-laptops/
#intel #arm
Nvidia is returning to consumer PCs through new partnerships with Intel and MediaTek, aiming to power AI-enabled laptops that rival Apple’s efficiency...
🔗 Source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-nvidia-return-consumer-pc-ai-laptops/
#intel #arm
TechRepublic
Nvidia Readies New Arm-Based Chips for Dell, Lenovo Laptops
Nvidia is returning to consumer PCs through new partnerships with Intel and MediaTek, aiming to power AI-enabled laptops that rival Apple’s efficiency.
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📰 Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Some Minor Optimizations For DX12 Games On Linux
Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-Intel-ANV-DX12-Minor
#steam #linux #intel
Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-Intel-ANV-DX12-Minor
#steam #linux #intel
Phoronix
Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Some Minor Optimizations For DX12 Games On Linux
Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel 'ANV' Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton.
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📰 Intel Media Driver Update Brings Nova Lake S Support, AV1 Improvements
While at the end of February, today Intel released the Intel Media Driver 2025Q4 release as well as the latest VPL GPU Runtime for their media stack...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Media-Driver-2025Q4
#intel
While at the end of February, today Intel released the Intel Media Driver 2025Q4 release as well as the latest VPL GPU Runtime for their media stack...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Media-Driver-2025Q4
#intel
Phoronix
Intel Media Driver Update Brings Nova Lake S Support, AV1 Improvements
While at the end of February, today Intel released the Intel Media Driver 2025Q4 release as well as the latest VPL GPU Runtime for their media stack.
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📰 Intel's Clear Linux Website No Longer Online
Last July Intel sadly ended their Clear Linux distribution amid cost-cutting measures at the company. Clear Linux for a decade served at the forefront of Linux performance innovations and was consistently the fastest out-of-the-box Linux x86_64 distribution until Intel ended the Linux distribution without any advanced notice for its users. Intel had kept up the ClearLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clear-Linux-Org-No-More
#linux #intel
Last July Intel sadly ended their Clear Linux distribution amid cost-cutting measures at the company. Clear Linux for a decade served at the forefront of Linux performance innovations and was consistently the fastest out-of-the-box Linux x86_64 distribution until Intel ended the Linux distribution without any advanced notice for its users. Intel had kept up the ClearLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clear-Linux-Org-No-More
#linux #intel
Phoronix
Intel's Clear Linux Website No Longer Online
Last July Intel sadly ended their Clear Linux distribution amid cost-cutting measures at the company
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📰 More ASUS Desktop Motherboards Will Support Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.1
ASUS desktop motherboards have been seeing broader sensor monitoring support on Linux in recent years. ASUS motherboards for Intel and AMD processors have been seeing more support added thanks to the open-source community with new additions to the likes of the ASUS-EC-Sensors driver and other hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver code. This is continuing for Linux 7.1...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-More-Sensors-Linux-7.1
#amd #linux #intel #opensource
ASUS desktop motherboards have been seeing broader sensor monitoring support on Linux in recent years. ASUS motherboards for Intel and AMD processors have been seeing more support added thanks to the open-source community with new additions to the likes of the ASUS-EC-Sensors driver and other hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver code. This is continuing for Linux 7.1...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-More-Sensors-Linux-7.1
#amd #linux #intel #opensource
Phoronix
More ASUS Desktop Motherboards Will Support Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.1
ASUS desktop motherboards have been seeing broader sensor monitoring support on Linux in recent years
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📰 Intel Preps A Lot Of Xe3 Code For Linux 7.1 Kernel
Intel yesterday sent out their first "drm-xe-next" pull request to DRM-Next of new Xe kernel graphics driver improvements they have readied for their eventual upstreaming into the Linux 7.1 kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DRM-Xe-Next-Linux-7.1
#linux #intel #kernel
Intel yesterday sent out their first "drm-xe-next" pull request to DRM-Next of new Xe kernel graphics driver improvements they have readied for their eventual upstreaming into the Linux 7.1 kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DRM-Xe-Next-Linux-7.1
#linux #intel #kernel
Phoronix
Intel Preps A Lot Of Xe3 Code For Linux 7.1 Kernel
Intel yesterday sent out their first 'drm-xe-next' pull request to DRM-Next of new Xe kernel graphics driver improvements they have readied for their eventual upstreaming into the Linux 7.1 kernel.
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📰 AMD EPYC Achieves 5G/6G RAN Performance Leadership With New OCUDU Project
Announced this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) by the Linux Foundation was the establishing of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation for advancing open-source AI-RAN (Radio Access Network) innovations. OCUDU is building a reference platform and innovations around 5G and early 6G network solutions. With OCUDU being benchmark-friendly, I have been putting the early code through some performance tests on current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon server...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-intel-xeon-ocudu
#opensource #linux #intel #amd
Announced this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) by the Linux Foundation was the establishing of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation for advancing open-source AI-RAN (Radio Access Network) innovations. OCUDU is building a reference platform and innovations around 5G and early 6G network solutions. With OCUDU being benchmark-friendly, I have been putting the early code through some performance tests on current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon server...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-intel-xeon-ocudu
#opensource #linux #intel #amd
Phoronix
AMD EPYC Achieves Performance Leadership In New OCUDU Project For 5G/6G RAN
Announced this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) by the Linux Foundation was the establishing of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation for advancing open-source AI-RAN (Radio Access Network) innovations.
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