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Tim Holmes-Mitra with Canonical has shared some roadmap highlights for the Ubuntu desktop with the in-development Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

With Intel's just-launched 5th Gen Xeon 'Emerald Rapids' processors headlined by the 64-core Xeon Platinum 8592+, one of the key upgrades with these new server processors is now supporting DDR5-5600 memory compared to DDR5-4800 with Sapphire Rapids and also the memory frequency limit with AMD's EPYC Zen 4 processors.

Holding up some laptops from shipping Linux pre-loaded around the world come down to regulatory certifications for power management not currently being met on Linux while working fine on Windows.

There's been nothing new on the BUS1 front this year for capability-based IPC within the Linux kernel..

The unofficial 'ALHP' repositories for Arch Linux have begun offering an x86-64-v4 tuned repository for packages built against this current highest x86-64 micro-architecture feature level for the latest Intel and AMD processors with AVX-512 support.

While there has been much talk this year about KDE Plasma 6.0 on the desktop as it gears up for release at the end of February, there's been less talk about the Plasma Mobile work for having the KDE stack on smartphones

While Intel's AI Everywhere event today was primarily focused on Core Ultra 'Meteor Lake' laptop processors and 5th Gen Xeon Scalable 'Emerald Rapids' processors, Intel also briefly announced their newest Xeon D and Xeon E series processors.

In addition to announcing the Core Ultra 'Meteor Lake' processors, Intel's AI Everywhere event in New York City also served as the launch point for 5th Gen Xeon Scalable 'Emerald Rapids' server processors.

Following the 5th Gen Xeon Scalable 'Emerald Rapids' overview, you are likely wondering about the performance claims made by Intel and how they shake up in independent testing as well as how Emerald Rapids competes against AMD EPYC Genoa(X) and Bergamo.

At Intel's AI Everywhere event they officially launched their new Core Ultra branded Meteor Lake processors that will begin appearing in new laptops.