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Congatec has announced a number of new rugged SMARC modules based on the Intel Atom x7000RE processor series (codenamed Amston Lake) and the Intel Core i3 processor.

AMD and Intel modern processors just got big boosts in performance thanks to various implementations of AES-XTX that help in disk encryption. For example, Windows BitLocker uses AES-XTX-128.

The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution aims to be a 'blazingly fast and customizable Linux distribution' that is aggressive with its performance optimizations.

While recent graphics cards support GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding, for those still relying on dav1d for CPU-based AV1 decode there is now version 1.4 'Road Runner' available that adds support for LoongArch and RISC-V architectures while continuing to further enhance the performance of this open-source AV1 decoder on x86_64 Intel/AMD processors too.

Top Intel channel and distribution partners told CRN that the chipmaker’s new North America commercial and partner sales group could benefit its ‘AI everywhere’ strategy.

Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and Advanced Vector Extensions 10 (AVX10), announced in July 2023 for future Intel CPUs, are now being implemented into Intels own Linux distribution.

JVM Performance Comparison for JDK 21 Authors Ionut Balosin Website: www.ionutbalosin.com X: @ionutbalosin GitHub: @ionutbalosin Mastodon: @ionutbalosin Florin Blanaru X: @gigiblender GitHub: @gigiblender Mastodon: @gigiblender Content Context SetUp JIT Compiler Benchmarks Geometric Mean API Benchmarks Geometric Mean Miscellaneous Benchmarks Geometric Mean Overall Geometric Mean Overall Conclusions Final Thoughts Acknowledgements References Context The current article describes…

While a number of Linux distributions are experimenting with x86-64-v2 baselines or offering x86-64-v3 optimized packages for assuming AVX/AVX2 support by default for their packages, the CachyOS Linux distribution has been experimenting with offering x86-64-v4 packages for those running on Intel or AMD systems with AVX-512 support.

Not only is Canonical exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 builds for targeting Intel and AMD processors with AVX/AVX2 support, but Red Hat has publicly confirmed now they are exploring a possible x86-64-v3 requirement for next year's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

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