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The DRM subsystem is slated to pickup a GPU Virtual Address 'VA' Manager with the Linux 6.6 kernel that is motivated by work around Vulkan sparse memory binding requirements.

For those on Linux running a multi-monitor setup with a mix of resolutions or screen sizes between the different displays, Google Chrome (and Chromium) will soon be able to better cope with this arrangement by allowing per-display scaling factors.

While the AMD EPYC 9754 'Bergamo' processor is impressive for having 128 physical Zen 4C cores, it also has Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) to provide for 256 threads per socket.

Intel announced this evening they agreed to a term sheet with ASUS for manufacturing, selling, and supporting the Next Unit of Compute (more commonly known as NUCs) from 10th to 13th generation systems and to develop future NUC system designs.

While not too useful as limited to OpenGL-only and will perform extremely slowly until the NVIDIA GSP firmware support is sorted out for the Nouveau DRM kernel driver, merged today for Mesa 23.3-devel and marked for back-porting to Mesa 23.2 is initial NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 'Ada Lovelace' GPU support.

Just days after System76 upstreamed Intel Raptor Lake HX and their new Adder WS 3 laptop into Coreboot, three more of their laptops have now made their way to upstream Coreboot.

Last year AMD launched Milan-X as their first server processors with 3D V-Cache.

In addition to the review embargo lift today for Genoa-X with our AMD EPYC 9684X benchmarks, the lift is also today on the new AMD EPYC 'Bergamo' processors for offering up to 128 cores / 256 threads per socket using the new Zen 4C core.

The Linux Foundation has established the Ultra Ethernet Consortium 'UED' as an industry-wide effort founded by AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Eviden, HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft for designing a new Ethernet-based communication stack architecture for high performance networking.

The release candidate is out today for XWayland 23.2 as the next update for this code that allows for X11 clients to function within Wayland environments.