Tag: intel
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Key Drivers Orphaned
Intel’s Linux Exodus: CPU Temperature Monitoring and Critical Drivers OrphanedWhat is happening at Intel? Intel’s unprecedented crisis deepens with over 24,000 global layoffs confirmed this year as part of a brutal workforce reduction. The turmoil extends to leadership, with CEO Lip-Bu Tan facing Trump administration pressure for resignation over alleged China connections. Sadly, these turbulences…
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Linux Kills 486 Support
Torvalds flushes ancient x86 silicon down the kernel loo The Linux kernel is finally putting the 486 processor out of its misery, ending decades of backward compatibility that even Microsoft ditched with Windows XP back in 2001. For those who came in late, Intel’s 486 processor launched in 1989 and was the first x86 chip to…
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Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux vs. AMD vs. IntelAuthor: Written by Michael Larabel in Processors June 2024 marked the launch of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite to much initial fanfare for finally some compelling ARM laptop designs. While initially — and still to this day with the likes of the TUXEDO X Elite laptop not…
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New Intel Driver Improves RAM Use
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Will Now Be Less Restrictive Over RAM UseWritten by Michael Larabel A change merged yesterday to the Intel Mesa graphics driver code lessens a restriction around the amount of system memory (RAM) that can be used by processes for the Vulkan system heap. This will allow more games/apps to work with the…
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Intel’s Kernel Test Reports 3888.9% Perf Boost
…From changing one line of code! Intel’s Linux kernel test robot has recently reported a 3888.9 per cent performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel after Chipzilla geeks changed one line of code. The test robot highlighted this massive improvement through its “will-it-scale.per_process_ops” scalability test case, running on an Intel Xeon Platinum (Cooper Lake) test…
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Intel Prepping Linux For SNC6 With Six Nodes Per L3 Cache
Patches for the Linux kernel over the past week are preparing for an SNC6 sub-NUMA clustering mode. This is the first time I’ve seen patches or mentions of an SNC6 mode compared to SNC 1/2/3/4 modes with existing processors. Sub-NUMA Clustering with Intel Xeon CPUs allows for each compute die to be exposed as its…
